[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Re: Indian Minister Kapil Sibal wants to censor social media

[CherianTinu Abraham]

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*Times of India : Twitter, Facebook users target Sibal*
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/social-media/Twitter-Facebook-users-target-Sibal/articleshow/11018300.cms


"*Sibal's Wikipedia profile was edited 21 times by web users and activists
on Tuesday . His profile was locked later in the evening due to a large
amount of web activists trying to edit simultaneously, describing him in
unkind words*."

-TC

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 5:05 PM, CherianTinu Abraham
<tinucherian at gmail.com>wrote:

> On a related note, this has appeared on *The Economic Times* :
>
> " Five reasons why India can't censor the Internet"
>
> http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/five-reasons-why-india-cant-censor-the-internet/articleshow/11018330.cms
>
>
> "*Yes, Internet content has the permanence and public-impact potential
> that a phone call does not, but equally, it lends itself brilliantly to
> self-regulation. *
> *
> *
> *3. Peer review works: Wikipedia is the best example. Who could have
> imagined that a user-created encyclopedia could be so objective, and
> comprehensive? Yes, anyone can go in and edit anything (barring entries
> like "Kapil Sibal", which have been locked due to vandalism!). *
> *
> *
> *If you make an inappropriate change, someone will come in and correct it.
> * "
>
>
> Regards
> Tinu Cherian
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
> parakara.ghoda at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This is basically restriction of freedom of expression and it will
>> hurt Wikipedia much more than it hurts Twitter or Facebook.
>>
>> On 07/12/2011, Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik.lak at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 12:06, Achal Prabhala <aprabhala at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> fyi
>> >>
>> >> -------- Original Message --------
>> >> Subject:        Re: [Foundation-l] Indian Minister Kapil Sibal Wants to
>> >> Censor
>> >> social
>> >> Date:   Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:02:10 +0530
>> >> From:   Achal Prabhala <aprabhala at gmail.com>
>> >> To:     Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <
>> >> foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>> >>
>> >
>> > I just want to write that there was a community member who seemed to be
>> of
>> > the notion ImageFilter is the technical fix for what Kapil Sibal is
>> > proposing(without probably understanding / knowing much) and connecting
>> the
>> > two distinct things. Yes Sibal showed some images as examples for his
>> > support, but what Sibal means is much more and prescreening of every
>> byte
>> > of user generated content. Please tell that member that linking up 2
>> > different things is not a good idea. ImageFilter needs to be discussed
>> with
>> > its own merits / demerits and this thing that Sibal proposes means much
>> > more than images.
>> >
>> > If at all the legislation comes and is being enforced, I think Wikimedia
>> > projects are better equipped *technically* than other social media sites
>> > cited to support the local laws(so that we need not be banned if that
>> goes
>> > to that extreme) with a combination of ImageFilter / FlaggedRevisions
>> and
>> > some more customizations, but thats not where we would like to go.
>> > Community is already not so strong and needs support, there is so much
>> work
>> > to do in increasing content, censorship will cripple Indian community if
>> > such a thing happens.
>> >
>> > There are many questions that the communities need to decide as to
>> submit
>> > to Indian laws (if at all they come through) and I hope the situation
>> does
>> > not arise for us to take those tough calls.
>> >
>> > PS : I would not like to post / join foundation-l myself since it has
>> high
>> > SNR IMO.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Regards
>> > Srikanth.L
>> >
>>
>> --
>> Sent from my mobile device
>>
>> Regards,
>> Srikanth Ramakrishnan.
>> Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th.
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore
>>
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