Wednesday 18 January 2012

Banning Google, WiKi, Facebook! A Decision out of Realms

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Have you GOOGLed today on the world’s most coveted and visited directory ‘Wikipedia’ for searching your queries? If not yet, kindly check once right now, you will see a ‘Blackened’ page with the message “Imagine a World Without Free Knowledge”. Further the page reads, “For over a decade, we have spent millions of hours building the largest encyclopedia in human history. Right now, the U.S. Congress is considering legislation that could fatally damage the free and open internet. For 24 hours, to raise awareness, we are blacking out Wikipedia. Learn more.”



The message displayed on Wikipedia instead of the desired content is certainly going to affect billions of knowledge freaks around the globe. And we can’t deny that fact, many of us might suffer huge loss in profession and common lives due to this 24 hours blacking out step of Wikipedia. Everyday net surfers especially students, academicians, media persons, activists, and people from different fields do extensive research on Wikipedia looking for their concerned topics and issues of interest. Hence, the policy of U.S. Congress to put the legislation for free and open internet is going to cause harm to knowledge seeking people from various sections.

Wikipedia / WiKiPedia page on January 18, 2012


Not only the U.S. Congress, in India too the Central Government has served notice to Google, and social networking websites Facebook and Twitter to remove the objectionable content. In fact, the UPA Government of India had grilled the search engine of Google, Facebook and Twitter under many points. As per the government’s guidelines the search terms like Sex, should be blackened out on Google and social networking websites. The matter has been brought to court for final decision and shortly a decision in favour or against these websites will be pronounced by the Judges.

However, in reply to Government’s notice, Google has told that is not possible to segregate the words and ban on the internet. For example, as per Google if you ban the word ‘Sex’, then the work ‘SenSEX’ will also be blocked. Now coming to the point, putting the regulations on Internet is not possible due to its wide spectrum and usage. Fact is that, it is impossible to think of life today without Internet and websites. What is the reason behind putting such ban, it is not clear to common people. If the U.S Congress, and the Indian Government wish to check the rate of obscene related content on the internet, then it would be better to ban the Magazine and printed materials, which is easily accessible to all.
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