Dafod.com – Tracking Stupidity Worldwide

August 9, 2008

You’ll thank me later

Filed under: Society — Tags: , , , — dafodo.uno @ 1:35 pm

China’s Organization Committee for the 2008 Beijing Olympics says their censorship of the Internet is for the good of China’s youth.

…Wang Wei, the vice-president of organising committee BOCOG, said: “We (BOCOG) promised free access except for a few websites that jeopardise our security and the healthy growth of our youth. That’s an assessment made by the authorities of which sites are good and which are not good for our youth. It’s like what any other country does.”

So what about the country’s adults?

Quick poll – What do you think is worse: Guantanamo Bay, rendition or China’s censorship of the Internet?

July 11, 2008

Restriction of freedom of expression

Filed under: Politics,Society — Tags: , , , — dafodo.uno @ 6:31 pm

I don’t know how but I missed this story when this happened. Apparently a low-level Indian politican filed a complaint against an Orkut user for “posting derogatory messages”. Pune police actually flew to Gurgaon and arrested the man.

Vaid was charged under section 292 of Indian Penal Code and section 67 of the Information Technology Act because he created a profile and then posted content in vulgar language about Sonia Gandhi in the community.

For what it’s worth, I think Sonia Gandhi is incredibly smart. The move to give up Prime Ministership and install Manmohan Singh as PM was sheer genius.

Powered by WordPress