There are other ways to keep the judiciary in line. One of the tools is obviously the appointments. There could be others. Newspapers and Media is anyway in bed with these politicians, as was obvious from Barkha Dutt and Radia episode. <\/p>\n
The only real \u2013 and I mean REAL \u2013 corner of resistance is the social media. And this includes the blogging world. Admitted that the bloggers in India are amateur and their platforms are very dispersed and scratchy. But there is a strong likelihood that in an event of national uprising, such a media can play a vital role. <\/p>\n
If anything that uprising in Egypt has taught, then it is that ordinary people with a bit of help from online media \u2013 facebook and blogs \u2013 can create an offline \u2013 REAL \u2013 movements, that can topple Govenrment of even dictators. That surely must be playing on the minds of the corrupt Governments of the day. Corrupt as the Indian Government is, it is no surprise that it has come out with its own version of dictatorial (and possibly draconian) suggested amendment, which may look harmless \u2013 or its use far fetched \u2013 but when the situation arises which aims to threaten the damning corrupt politicians, then such dormant powers can quickly blossom into actual crackdown. <\/p>\n
The real culprit are the sub-rules 3(2)(b) and 3(2)(g), which go far beyond Section 69A of the Act and <\/p>\n
provide for blocking content<\/b> which, \u201cis harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, blasphemous, objectionable, defamatory<\/b>, vulgar, obscene, pornographic, paedophilic, libellous, invasive of another\u2019s privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable, disparaging<\/b>, relating or encouraging money laundering or gambling, or otherwise unlawful in any manner whatever<\/b>\u201d and \u201ccauses annoyance or inconvenience<\/b> or deceives or misleads the addressee about the origin of such messages or communicates any information which is grossly offensive or menacing in nature;\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It is instructive to note that The Blocking of Information Rules, 2009 already provide a mechanism to block information in India, which provides for mechanisms to safeguard in event of misuse of powers by corrupt officials. In that act, there is a provision for appointing a designated officer through a notification in the Official Gazette to issue directions for blocking access. However, in the current rules. the onus is on the \u201cintermediary\u201d, where it says that \u201cthe intermediary upon obtaining actual knowledge by an authority mandated under law for the time being in force\u2026\u201d<\/i> should block access to the information. That means bloggers have to constantly keep a eye on their content because someone will find their content threatening, abusive, harassing, blasphemous, objectionable, defamatory<\/i>. <\/p>\n
What if someone from a certain religion stands up and has me arrested if I say the concept of \u201cDay of Judgment\u201d is bullshit (an opinion, which I completely subscribe to btw), because what I say is \u201cblasphemous\u201d to him?<\/p>\n
Do you see the extent and possibility of mischief? And you thought blasphemy was only the problem of the Pakistanis? If the current Government has its way, India will very soon be under a Jehadi dispensation \u2013 just that the name of the organization will be a Secular sounding one.<\/p>\n
Here are the actual rules which you can download and read for yourself.<\/p>\n
Information Technology (Reasonable security practices and procedures and sensitive personal information) Rules, 2011<\/b><\/p>\n
Information Technology (Due diligence observed by intermediaries guidelines) Rules, 2011<\/b><\/p>\n
Information Technology (Guidelines for Cyber Cafe) Rules, 2011<\/b><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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