India Summons Wikipedia Officials Over Edits To Cricketer's Page (techcrunch.com) 50
India has summoned executives of Wikipedia after a cricketer's page on the online encyclopedia was edited with links to a separatist movement. The country's IT ministry made the order on Monday to seek clarification from Wikipedia executives over the incident. From a report: A key IT minister publicly expressed his concern about the edits to the page of cricketer Arshdeep Singh, suggesting that some people from Pakistan were behind the act and were attempting to disrupt peace in the South Asian market. The Wikipedia page of Singh, who had several lapses in a game between India and Pakistan on Sunday, was edited to incorrectly say that he had been selected to play for Khalistan, a fictitious independent homeland sought by some separatists groups. Rajeev Chandrasekhar, India's Junior IT Minister, said in a tweet that no intermediary, a service with over 5 million users, can permit deliberate misinformation campaign of this kind. Such acts "violates our govt's expectation of safe & trusted internet," he tweeted.
India crime (Score:5, Insightful)
No citizen should expect their government to allow any crime. Yet there is murder, class oppression, and rape in India. Why have no officials ever been summoned by the people for that?
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+5 Good point
Re: India crime (Score:3)
Re:India crime (Score:5, Insightful)
Who said it is unique to India? What does that have to do with anything? You're cool with having cancer if other people have it?
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If they expect Wikipedia to change itself and edit things according the stupid government's "expectations" .. why can't the government change itself to meet the people's expectations? The government failed to educate people on how wikipedia works and how to verify information, and so now they are blaming wikipedia. The government can't trust its own people with how to evaluate information so it has to crack down on free speech.
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Maybe the officials should read this Wikipedia article instead instead of a little vandalism on a sportsman's page.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
They can find some deliberate misinformation officials to summon that are actually in their jurisdiction.
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> whose claim to fame is any random fuddy duddy can edit their pages
Oh no, how can such a web resource meet the stringent media requirements of quality from India? No random fuddy duddies allowed to write.
https://timesofindia.indiatime... [indiatimes.com]
https://timesofindia.indiatime... [indiatimes.com]
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My laugh for the day (Score:5, Funny)
Such acts "violates our govt's expectation of safe & trusted internet," he tweeted.
Might as well just turn it off now then.
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Such acts "violates our govt's expectation of safe & trusted internet," he tweeted.
Might as well just turn it off now then.
Nah, that's just a pretext for Modi's government to protect the citizens from badthink.
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> Might as well just turn it off now then.
Just don't forget to turn it back on again.
https://youtu.be/nn2FB1P_Mn8?t... [youtu.be]
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Safe and trusted internet?
Then they should just stop the Indian celebs and politicians posting hate speech in social media.
Idiots.
Even better, he said that on *Twitter* (Score:2)
I thought it was funny that he expects "a safe & trusted internet".
I then noticed that's quoted from his tweet. He's on TWITTER and expects the internet to be "safe trusted". He really thinks whatever he reads on Twitter is "safe and trusted".
PS - A serious question (Score:2)
I have a question. I'd like to understand how some people think. I promise I'm not trying to be inflammatory here and would really like to understand. I'm hoping someone can explain their thought process to me without going into a screaming frenzy about how horrible Trump is is whatever. He we know he sucks, that's not the question.
We can all see politicians are largely clueless about really anything other than running a campaign, right? They do and say moronic things all the time, agreed?
When they're not
Re: PS - A serious question (Score:2)
Good question. I suppose the corruption and nepotism is just the cost of getting things done at that level.
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> You're saying "some politicians are either corrupt or incompetent, therefore we would be better off reducing (or eliminating) the government".
I'm saying that it seems to me MOST Congress critters and other politicians setting tax policy and other economic policies don't know even the basics in chapter 1 of and Economics 101 textbook. I'm saying that when it comes to technology, MOST of them don't know what a packet is, never mind the difference between a packet and frame, never mind how different kinds
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Because as dumb as politicians are, the people that vote for them are even dumber. Making decisions is HARD, being responsible is no fun!
These people would rather be told what to do, how to do it, and where to do it because its less work than making your own decisions and living your own life. They want someone to care for them and keep them safe from all the bad things the media talks about 24/7.
You could call it a conspiracy I guess, but its really just the end result of a bunch of systems coming togeth
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False equivalencies are false.
There is a world of difference between quietly groaning and facepalming when your grifter brother promotes "Billy Beer," and the level of nepotism of actually having your grifter sons on the payroll as managers and spokesmen and inventing fake cabinet positions in which to install your grifter daughter and that parasite she married.
There's an even larger world of difference between placing your investment and business portfolios into a blind trust (The aforementioned President
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You may have missed the sentence of the question. yes, we know trump sucks, that's a given. The question is - knowing that he sucks, why would you want him or his successors running your life?
Another crappy president couldn't have been a surprise. Right here on Slashdot, halfway through the Obama administration, I personally warned you that Sarah Palin or someone just as clueless was likely to be the next president. I warned you of this WHILE you were pushing to give the president more power. So you were wa
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The Internet? Is that thing still around ?!?
IT ministry? (Score:2)
That has to have to do something with the worship of IT, it very obviously can't have anything to do with the administration of IT.
Nobody should be tasked with administrating something they know fuck all about.
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Nobody should be tasked with administrating something they know fuck all about.
You must be new on this planet! Welcome!
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I clearly said should. Not that it isn't that way. I'm well aware that this is more the rule than the exception.
But it sure should be that way.
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t very obviously can't have anything to do with the administration of IT.
It is pretty obvious that these officials are making a passive-aggressive public education campaign promoting Khalistan.
Obviously a lot of stupidity involved; this... (Score:2)
..moron thinks the internet is trustable, lol.
Re:Obviously a lot of stupidity involved; this... (Score:4, Insightful)
Former Indian official on "Cloud Computing": what happens to your data when it rains?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
https://thenextweb.com/news/hi... [thenextweb.com]
The old days (Score:4, Funny)
I miss the old days in which India's contribution to the Internet was badly photoshopped images of young guys in front of fancy cars.
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Binod
Scammers (Score:5, Insightful)
He should spend his time shutting down scammers and their call centres instead. But he is not interested in that.
Office plans (Score:1)
I assume the plans for a wiki office in India are now on hold?
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik... [wikimedia.org]
Ah Americans (Score:2)
Ah humans (Score:3, Insightful)
No idea that sports are pointless and wins or losses shouldn't affect their lives.
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How does making up bullshit affect that though? Someone can claim he's promised to a certain team, but if that team doesn't exist, then it's kind of irrelevant. There won't be any wins and losses to keep track of. Also this is a lot closer to an act of vandalism than of war.
And who knows if it actually came from Pakistan or not? The government of India has a ton of motive to do it themselves, false flag it, and then use it as justification for more censorship.
Our govt's expectation of safe & trusted inter (Score:2)
They know that they have to pay extra for that, right?
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Angry white male editors on a roadtrip to India (Score:2)
Sounds like a good plot for a Hollywood movie!
Wikipedia is dying (Score:1, Insightful)
Anyone who has tried making proper edits know that. Even attempts to correct typos get reverted within minutes, while deliberate misinformation gets more and more prominent day by day.
Re: Wikipedia is dying (Score:2)
Become?
I think it was barely usable from day one. I used to edit some history pages, and I would find various bots flipping the changes back in seconds.
Now there's a cabal which sells edits for money.
The only use I have for Wikipedia is to use the references to narrow down searches in Google Scholar.
TikTok already got the boot (Score:2)
Twitter and Wikipedia are both on thin ice in India.
The CEO of Twitter is of Indian origin; he might suddenly find his OCI status getting revoked.
Wikipedia may not get banned, but their path for donations might get blocked.
This govt doesn't tolerate foreign interference, unlike the left wingers currently in Opposition who go around begging for it.
Mr. Wales, I need to see you in my office. (Score:2)
Oh, *THAT* I.T. (Score:1)