Past one month has been a mixed bag for Internet as in USA, the SOPA(Stop Online Piracy Act ) and PIPA (Protect of IP Act) were pulled off after a strong resistance from the internet community. But there is a loss in Indian context as the Government is intervening in free speech as it has asked the giant internet companies to censor content.
But as the whole online community went against the US Govt. to stop SOPA and PIPA, who will act in India ? We can't allow the Govt. to deprive our basic right of Free Speech. Recently, the Govt. of India asked 21 companies to censor data. But Google has strongly rejected it. Similarly, other firms will also reject it. We want a nation in which free speech is valued.
May be one of the reasons why govt. wants to censor data is to prevent what happened during Anna Hazare movement. People got connected via Facebook and Twitter to organize protest and the internet played a major role in involving people and especially the youth.
There is a lot of debate against censorship and I hope the govt. understands the basic right of people and values it instead depriving the nation of it.
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