India is worried that Twitter has become a threat to national security and has warned Twitter of "appropriate and suitable action."
It has told the outfit that it has to close 20 accounts that it believes have spread scare-mongering stories.
India has been getting all censorship mad lately and blocked 200 web pages which it claims have incited communal violence in the northeast of the country. There had been fighting between Muslim settlers and local tribal groups in the state of Assam.
According to the Indian Government, the sites, as well as mass SMS phone messages, had frightened people from the northeast working in southern cities.
While Facebook, Google and Twitter were praised for helping the Arab Spring by facilitating the free flow of information, it seems that more established democracies are also starting to see the sites as a threat.
Google and Facebook are complying with Indian government requests to remove content. However Twitter has not said anything yet.
But the problem here is that the Indians are not just stopping with those particular Twitter accounts. According to Fox, it is trying to shut down the Twitter accounts of journalists who have criticised the government.
India has also thumped Al Jazeera news, as well as the Daily Telegraph and the Aussie Broadcasting Corporation, for stirring up trouble.
The moves appear to be a knee jerk reaction against anything which might "inflame passions." But is also very often just bad press about botched government handling of a particular crisis.
The US government is also starting to get involved. As its relationship with Pakistan was revealed to be a sham, it appears to have been trying to cultivate India. Now it is finding that it has to leap to the defence of US companies, such as Google and Twitter.
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The ONLY reason thoughts were gifted to humans is for us to realise our predicament/conscience with one [fundamental] caveat, which is that if we were not to use thoughts innocently and wisely, one's thoughts will be our undoing. In other words, if one were not to use thoughts as utility but as weaponry, our thoughts will then be used against us and nobody else. A Simplicity which Eludes because almost to a man, humans have yet to realise that thoughts are merely The Journey and not The Destination. For the Qikdraw McGraws, 'fink long and hard about it before firing from the hips if only because your type is the cause of most of the ills of humanity. The Blind-Blinded assuming not only hindsight and insight, but foresight too whilst cunningly/sympathetically claiming modesty and humility.
A moment will arrive, perhaps within 3 generations, when all the regrets and genuine humility will count for nowt because the moment for judgement had then passed. Judgement, as in all matters human, is of self before it could become of another because by then, there will be no other - if only because all selfs are tethered together as in some gigantic String of Pearls with all the others falling off it. Realise too that Humanity, oka Of Relativity, is the problem and will never be its own solution if only because the solution is always beyond the capacity and capability of a problem much like Truth could never be confined within UnTruth. As such, a mediocre personality cannot become an universal one without an external interjection much like A Leader could never be An Example - even if it takes rationality an infinity of tries. Why so? Because the former is Of Transience whereas the latter is Of Permanency. But guess who The Blind-Blinded always vote for. The Leader. Those, whose capacity and capability is only useful for binning and expressing Fame, Fortune & Immortality when it is actually expressing sweet nothings about Truth.
India is the physical expression of Mother Kundalini with Indians merely being the blank paper for scribing - the cause for maintaining the culture. Many are clamouring for their rebirths as The Ending draws near and since The West is a closed loop when it come to births, the populations elsewhere will have to take on the brunt of the "explosion". But guess what The Fathering Mothers, The Mothering Fathers, airy-fairy zillionaires, beggar-thieves, and other greeny-loonies are trying their best to do? Close the lid on the opportunity to make it on the Last Train for Reality the joke being that those within The Closed Loop are not doing much to get onboard that train other than zooming off into "Sub-Space" and other white bearded Frivolous & Nonsensical "recreativities". And long may they stay there because no matter how The Bookie, His Tentacles and their Tag-alongs try, there is no place to hide after the deal has been done.
This is none other than Prince Charles who write these affirmations for us on TechEye, init? Yeah it all makes sense now. Wattup? Charlie? Can't wait to wear that crown? It is. It is! What? even!