The great Indian censorship dream

I don't understand this furore over censorship in social media. We have been pioneers of censorship ... always !! We ban controversial movie and book releases all the time. And we don't even need the Govt for that. Any Tom Dick Harry with a few strong muscular followers can do that any day and then assume some fancy name for their new formed group and formulate some ideology for themselves (coz ideology is required ... Ohh you've got 2 stand 4 something).

Worst case if Facebook and youtube is censored, the fun that we have by abusing and criticizing politicians ... well we would have to find some new pastime. There are plenty available in FB anyways !! 

I don't think Facebook will be banned though, there are a lot of companies whose main source of advertisement is Facebook, I am sure they won't let that happen. 

Censorship has always been a feature of our politics - as the Americans invade any country in the interest of national security, we censor anything in the interest of communal harmony. After all we have been neighbors to China for so long, we ought to learn something from them, good or bad. 

I don't feel angered at Mr Sibbal at coming up with such an outrageous idea of social media censorship, I don't think its outrageous at all ... at least not in India. What I am disappointed with is the cliched and hackneyed thinking on the part of the IT minister to take control over a dire situation. Any other minister in his position, no matter from which party he belonged, would have done quite the same thing ... or done nothing. If the Govt thinks that social media is fueling a lot of distrust and anger in the citizen's mind, what has the Govt done to build that trust back? Why can't they use the same social media to counter all those opinions ... Maybe they don't have anything to counter them with, maybe they don't have anything to show off now ... 

The Govt has already given up I feel, they themselves don't want to continue ... the kind of mismanagement they have shown in the past few months ... might encourage B Schools to create a new course in their curriculum called - How not to manage (The Congress Way). If the majority party can't have a hold over the parliament's proceedings, how could you expect them to do well in governing the country !! 

For all those who are reading this note (that's a big assumption on my part) and thinking whose side this guy is anyways? Well ... I am just a regular pessimist, I don't have to pick sides ... I just happen to know some English and like to show off my writing skills occasionally :)