More Fuel For Facebook Censorship Advocates In India 122
thodelu writes "Close on the heels of Friday's communal clashes in a town in India that were triggered by a Facebook post which contained morphed images apparently deriding a religious place of worship, there has been another incident. City police have removed images from another similar blog post citing 'cyber criminal' laws. There has been an ongoing effort in India to censor the web which would get more backing as a result of these events. Could we be seeing another Great Firewall of China?"
The solution is censorship? (Score:4, Interesting)
Really, why dont they look at the root cause, which is the communal tension and try to solve them. Oh wait, it is politicians that incite such communal hatred for political reason.
Re:It's the religion, stupid (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:the real cause (Score:2, Interesting)
Mao outlawed religion...
Mao also developed a philosophy of the moral superiority of the downtrodden ("Blessed are the meek..."?); established a cult of personality venerating him as more than a mere man; and published a handbook of his writings that outsold the Bible, and was treated in much the same manner (as a source of divine wisdom, infallibly correct).
It seems to be a flaw of the human psyche, that the most direct way to get rid of a religion is to invent another one to replace it.