Orkut, Google’s social networking site, is spreading anti-Indian words on Internet. Advocate Yugant R Marlapalle has filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in Aurangabad bench of Bombay High Court on this issue.
In the response to the PIL, Justice A P Deshpande and Justice R M Borde have sent a directive to the Maharashtra government to issue notice to Google for the alleged spread of hatred about India by its social network service Orkut.
In the petition, it is said that the Orkut is consisted a picture of burning the national tricolour, bearing anti-India message. There is an anti-Indian community We Hate India has been created on the site.
The petition has demanded to appoint a controller as well under the Information Technology Act-2000 to restrict such kind of communities being in operation on the internet.
The court will hear the case after six weeks.
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these stupid sites cannot effect the pride of our nation,i m an indian nd i m proud of it,i l just like to say we should ignore this stupid stuff nd each one of us should try nd make india proud,vande mataram.
I am agree with dhruv, these kinds of acts can not afffect to our mind, we are indian and proud to be an indian, please overlooked these sick people, they do not deserve anything.
No doubt ORKUT is a good place to network but orkut should make it a rule infact impose a rule for all such anti-social, anti-country, anti-religious communities to rise.
No doubt NEHA and DHRUV are right in their own ways but we can not be prey to such comments against us.
WE ARE PROUD INDIANS and OUR PRIDE COMES FIRST !!
JAI HIND !!
To Dhruv, Neha and Vikrant, I am glad to see ur comments here on this story.
You all are true in your words that these kinds of anti-nation communities cannot affect your mind.
But dear friends, specially to Dhruv, Ignorance to bad things, some times, pays in heavy loss. You cannot actually ignore and keep your eyes closed from that side. If we are true Indians, we should raise our voice against it.
Neha, overlooking bad things is not a long time solution for any matter. It is ok you can easily ignore but think about those people who are soft and easily become the victims by arrogant speeches made by mullah, pandits and politicians.
Vikrant writes good stuff, but man, we should do something to stop all these non-sense that is making a good place of networking as a platform to spread anti-Indian words. Isn’t it?
in past india was the Golden Bird (defined by Britishers)
whole world respect the mantra ”Ahinsa parmo dharma” of .Bapu.
an indian ”Vinod Dahm ” is the creator of pentium chip (wod’s 90% of computers run on it).
world’s one of the fastest growing country is india.
we are one of the the earliest civilisation of the earth
Who is the founder and creator of Hotmail (Hotmail is world’s No.1 web based email program)?
:- Sabeer Bhatia
NOW hv any one dare to prove ”so in short india was great , india is great and india will be great forever
its good to know that finally some legal action is taking place somewhere.
ORKUT is doing real damage to 3 major areas when it comes to India&Pakistan regios specifically...
1. Inter-National relations between india and Pakistan
2. Inter-Relegion relations between different relegions (Especially Hindu-Muslim)
3. Inter-Sect relations between different sects of same relegion or region( Islam and certain local territories of Indo-Pak area is being a visible target)
there are only few ppl who want this kind of sh*t. and ORKUT is providing them a medium to do what they want. what happens is, they just put a flame to an issue and all the stupid people start a war on that.
I know that majority of Indians are NOT AGAINST pakistanis, and same for Pakistanis about Indians.
same thing is true about relegions and sects.
what goes wrong is, if someone says ”I HATE PAKISTAN”, i feel like killing him. but, i have to control myself. it is not appropriate in anyway that i start abusing India in response.
but not much of ppl stay controlled. they start reacting in stupid ways. without even thinking that its a cyberworld where even identities are not actual identities. where playing with issues is easier than ever. maybe some anti indian pakistani has said that ”I HATE PAKISTAN” just to start a well expected social war against india.
same story remains true for indians as well.
both nations are pround of them. both nations have their own dignity and respect. but when it comes to ORKUT, only two things are there to make it stop...
1. sensible people, or control by sensible people (this is very hard to implement on such media)
2. legal action to ensure that anti-national, anti-relegion, anti-sect or any such communities/blogs get banned right away.
really i am feeling very happy that at least india is taking some action. i hope Pakistan cana lso learn something and start some legal movement.
ITS TIME TO WAKE UP INDIANS AND LETS LAY THEM DOWN AGAIN
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best luckty
respect everyone feelings . i have really bad words for those who created this community and orkut should also take this balm as knowingly they are not blocking this .
i request all indian to stop using orkut . you can switch to callinglife.com a better site than orkut
callinglife.com is much better than orkut . pratiksha u r right we all should shift to callinglife.com
in india hardly 5 % people use internet
and if keep banning websites % will decrease to 2 or 3 %
government trying to increase internet users for education and other development
, spreading internet network in villages
If orkut has to ban why not yahoo rediff , it also contain terrorist mails , anti Indian material , if orkut has to ban why not postal department it also contain terrorist letters and other material ,
If there are 95% uses there will be 5% miss use , we should find that 5 % and not disappoint 95% people
I remember when I was in school (8th Std to be precise) I learnt about the Indian constitution in my civics class. We have what is known as fundamental rights and responsibilities. One of the fundamental rights states that we have the right to freedom of speech and expression.
These people are free express their dislike of India if they wish to do so. Similarly we have the freedom to not like what they say, but we don’t have the right to demand that orkut take their group off because we disagree with their opinions. The government certainly should NOT have the right to demand orkut to take the content off. If our govt can force them to take the content off, what makes us different from other countries where freedoms of free expression are repressed? What happens when it sets a precedent for the govt to repress dissenting opinions by citizens? Such things can set very bad precedents.
But we are consumers. And we are free to stop doing business with orkut if their business practices offend us.
My point is, if you disagree with the content in orkut, by all means find a different social networking provider. However the government should not have any right in demanding such information be taken off because it might offend certain people.
I support mr Pramz, which writes much more eloquently than I can.
People who are against free speech should follow their beliefs and shut up...
We are not entitled to censor everything we disagree with. That is simply not the purpose of censorship. We cannot change the world we live in simply by being grumpy nationalists, denying the wide array of perspectives present in this world.
Allow criticism of religion and social conditions, because if something is truly wrong with them, and we do not have the option of criticising them so others will see this, we risk devolving into petty police states or remaining as feudal societies where nothing is allowed.
This Orkut forum’s welcome message sounds like: ”The sole purpose of this community isn’t meant to offend india.Its about having a group of people who have enemity for india just coz of its oppressive & hostile approach.” - clearly, this is a critique of the government, not the culture and the people. (Reading some of the posts in the forum, however, makes me acknowledge that others just use this as an excuse to bash cultural identities.)