Injustice to the bloggers!!
This is with regards to the programme on Saturday 22 July 2006 on the issue of blocking various websites and blogs.
While I do believe that the intension was not wrong from the Indian govt. side the procedure was. I do not agree with Jayanti Natarajan's view which sounded far from reality, dimining and provocative, the other speakers presented quite a realistic views. I think that if even after 8-10 yrs of internet, our ruling parties have not understood it properly (since the govt. spokesperson said internet is a new medium!!??) it should just quit or say that it cannot tackle the issue in public. It may also be because they have always been too slow and were busy making money while the rest of India moved ahead in technology.
Why we use blogs?
The reason why blogs protest exists against govt or some political party are because of govt. faliure to convince people. Today people who have the access to internet can atleast share there views to fellow citizens. Petitions and polls flood the web against injustice, reservation, and against cases that the court of law fails to provide justice to and those where an influencial politician commited a murder but is left free.
Suggestion to the government
If the Govt. is commited towards finding a solution (which I very much doubt) then firstly it sould not act in a haphazzered manner. Freedom of speech should not be taken away from the citizens, be it RTI or blogs/websites. We should have a basic infrastructure just like the US, EU and other advanced nations against this so called "New Medium". We already have NIC which looks into all the governmental websites and online stuff. Why not empower this excellent and technologically advanced agency to a bigger role in the country. There work should be extended then just a govt. server and data management company. I have seen and I am sure they have the capacity and the required skills. Why not expand this agency and create a special wing to have a more coordinate operations with the Police, to act as a hub of knowledge or act as a central agency in monitoring such content and websites potentially dangerous in affecting the psyche of the common man or people of one or more religion/caste.
If the govt. is unable to do this by itself it can take help from the Indian private sector who already have specialized knowledge on the subject.
At the end we can only dream of a better India where no such henious attacks occur and the common man is made proud of its govt. (ha ha ha... the last words seem to be some jokes, I know but whats the harm in dreaming??)
While I do believe that the intension was not wrong from the Indian govt. side the procedure was. I do not agree with Jayanti Natarajan's view which sounded far from reality, dimining and provocative, the other speakers presented quite a realistic views. I think that if even after 8-10 yrs of internet, our ruling parties have not understood it properly (since the govt. spokesperson said internet is a new medium!!??) it should just quit or say that it cannot tackle the issue in public. It may also be because they have always been too slow and were busy making money while the rest of India moved ahead in technology.
Why we use blogs?
The reason why blogs protest exists against govt or some political party are because of govt. faliure to convince people. Today people who have the access to internet can atleast share there views to fellow citizens. Petitions and polls flood the web against injustice, reservation, and against cases that the court of law fails to provide justice to and those where an influencial politician commited a murder but is left free.
Suggestion to the government
If the Govt. is commited towards finding a solution (which I very much doubt) then firstly it sould not act in a haphazzered manner. Freedom of speech should not be taken away from the citizens, be it RTI or blogs/websites. We should have a basic infrastructure just like the US, EU and other advanced nations against this so called "New Medium". We already have NIC which looks into all the governmental websites and online stuff. Why not empower this excellent and technologically advanced agency to a bigger role in the country. There work should be extended then just a govt. server and data management company. I have seen and I am sure they have the capacity and the required skills. Why not expand this agency and create a special wing to have a more coordinate operations with the Police, to act as a hub of knowledge or act as a central agency in monitoring such content and websites potentially dangerous in affecting the psyche of the common man or people of one or more religion/caste.
If the govt. is unable to do this by itself it can take help from the Indian private sector who already have specialized knowledge on the subject.
At the end we can only dream of a better India where no such henious attacks occur and the common man is made proud of its govt. (ha ha ha... the last words seem to be some jokes, I know but whats the harm in dreaming??)
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