The Indian government has asked Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Facebook to remove disparaging, inflammatory or defamatory user content about politicians before it goes online and punters realise what a bunch of corrupt losers they vote for.
Kapil Sibal, India's acting telecommunications minister has summoned top executives from the leading tech outfits to a communion around his drinks cabinet.
Apparently Sibal thinks that the internet is full of people insulting each other and defamatory posts and he thinks it would be better if the big four censored everything.
With censorship, people can go back to loving one another as they did in the Gita. Well, the bits of the Gita that didn't involve chopping people's heads off with circular shaped buzz saws hurled from chariots by creatures with elephant's heads.
The executives were expected to tell Sibal and his drinks cabinet that such a demand was impossible given the volume of user-generated content coming from India. The argument goes that there is so much material coming out from India they could not be responsible for determining what was and was not defamatory or disparaging.
The only way to censor the net is if there is a law, and a court order on something in specific.
Companies cannot be in the business of deciding whether something is legal to post, the execs say.
However, in an earlier meeting with Facebook, Sibal's motives became fairly obvious when he revealed that someone amongst India's huge population had put up a page which maligned the Congress Party's Sonia Gandhi as not fit for the job because she was married to murdered Rajiv Gandhi. Nor is it fair to say that Rajiv only got the job because his mum was murdered, nor is it right to say that his mum Indra got the job because she took the married name of an assassinated Indian saint. Apparently it is wrong to say that there is any nepotism in the Congress party.
According to the Economic Times, he said that it was "unacceptable" for anyone to say anything bad about Rajiv Gandhi's missus and it should be obvious that slagging off politicians on the internet should be against the law.
His view is that politicians have to be treated like gods among their people and it is up to the internet companies to help them do this.
Sibal told them he expected them to set up a screening system, with staff members looking for what he found as objectionable content and deleting it before it was posted.
The sudden decision to allow FDI in retail, whose timing has amazed everyone, was prompted by what I wrote on November 18, 2011 about more than a thousand Indian Air Force aircraft having crashed since 1970, the vast majority of the crashes caused by microwaves from U.S. satellites and the new Chief of Air Staff, N. A. K. Browne, who is a CIA-RAW operative, causing two such crashes in his first week in office to boost his bid to buy worse than worthless foreign aircraft for tens of billions of dollars (see IndianAirForcePilotsMurderDOTblogspotDOTcom); this made the purchase impossible and so RAW dictated (see 'What You Should Know About RAW' in my blog below for how CIA-RAW dictates all such decisions) the FDI in retail decision as another avenue to bring India into slavery to the white countries, as an act of defiance and attempted defeat of my defence of India.//
Within hours of my saying the above, RAW, in another show of defiance, caused another Indian Air Force aircraft to crash, in Haryana. Nothing that any government minister says matters. Only what CIA-RAW DOES matters. And CIA-RAW does whatever it wants, whenever it wants (see 'What You Should Know About RAW' in my blog). //
Whether it is FDI or any other issue, CIA-RAW is the elephant in the room that no one talks about without which all discussion is worthless. I had asked the Indian Army to arrest the top one thousand or so officers of RAW. It has not done so. But, as I have said, India's nuclear forces obey Satish Chandra. He does not need India's conventional forces or the rest of the government and citizenry to defend India which requires the destruction of RAW which will be done by nuclear means, that is, the simultaneous nuclear destruction of New Delhi, Washington and New York, with a warning that additional U. S. cities will be destroyed, with nuclear warheads already emplaced in them by special forces, if there is any retaliation. //
In a press release dated June 30, 2011 titled "National Security Doctrine" (included in my blog titled 'Nuclear Supremacy For India Over U.S.' which can be found by a Yahoo/Google search with the title) I said://
"An ugly white woman columnist at the New York Times wrote that she looks forward to having her columns written by "external cognitive servants" in Bangalore. The Manmohan Singh cabinet a few days ago approved a plan for bringing foreign investment and technology to create one hundred million manufacturing jobs in India, bringing essentially the entire population of India into servitude to the United States. A nation is not strong whose people are servants of an external power. The National Security Doctrine permits Indians to be neither cognitive servants nor manufacturing servants of the United States. 'How India's Economy Can Grow 30% Per Year Or More' in my blog above provides the means for true prosperity and full employment for Indians."//
In a press release dated November 17, 2011 titled "Liberating India" I said "Integrated Circuit chips made in the United States are required to provide for access to the United States National Security Agency so it can monitor and take control of their operations at will. Components and electronic equipment from the United States should be absolutely "haram"; far from lamenting 'technology denial', equipment from the United States should be rejected even if it is offered on a platter and free of charge as I have said. India's bought-up Defence, Atomic Energy, Space and other officials deliberately close their eyes to this threat. This also applies to U. S.- made civilian aircraft, for example. There are two hundred thousand Indian engineers and scientists working in Research & Development for foreign companies in India but instead of putting its money in Research & Development ( in my letter dated January 5, 2004 to the press -- see my blog -- I had suggested one million Research & Development workers in India in government-sponsored projects), India's CIA-RAW government buys foreign equipment in all fields to keep India poor, weak and enslaved. India's government lends hundreds of billions of dollars to the U. S. government in exchange for worthless U. S. paper but seeks foreign investment and World Bank loans for projects in India, giving ownership and control of India to India's enemies, despite the unlimited capital available to India by simply printing the money; see 'How India's Economy Can Grow 30% Per Year Or More' in my blog titled 'Nuclear Supremacy For India Over U. S.' which can be found by a Google/Yahoo search with the title; as is described there, the United States has been applying my proposal about money by stealth and now also openly but Manmohan Singh refuses to do so because this bugger -- a CIA appointee -- does what serves the United States', not India's, interests."//
I am India's expert in strategic defence, the father of India's strategic program including the Integrated Guided Missile Development Program, the world's greatest scientist (my biography can be found in Marquis' Who's Who in the World, 2011 and earlier editions) and India's legitimate ruler.//
Satish Chandra