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There are some young people out there who think that by hacking government websites and demonstrating their petty hacking skills, they will somehow awe the people of India into thinking that they stand for liberty.
But such thinking is absurd.
PLEASE NOTE THIS: Liberty MUST come with Accountability. Liberty that is not open and transparent, liberty that is not accountable, is license. What you are doing is the very opposite of liberty. It is tyranny.
Yes, the government is very wrong to threaten liberty of speech. But the solution is parliamentary. Form government and change the laws. Don't stoop to terrorism BEFORE you've first exhausted the democratic option.
Your threats to hack and bring down a few computers here or there do not demonstrate ANY understanding of the true meaning of liberty.
Liberty means standing up for one's cause, explaining it to others, winning their support through reason.
Liberty means proving why freedom of speech is good. Go read On Liberty by JS Mill and try writing something even close to that classic, which can persuade and win arguments.
Try to rise above technical computer code that any ridiculous unthinking nerd can write without having understood the BASICS of life or what we as a society are aiming to achieve.
Remember that anonymous people CANNOT REPRESENT LIBERTY.
Gandhi represented liberty, but he fought the enemy in the open, in the limelight. And respectfully. He won over not just his friends, but his enemies.
Stop terrorising the modestly skilled government technicians of NIC with your petty computer skills. That's not the game we are playing.
This is about FREEDOM. And that means INTEGRITY and HONESTY. Stand up. Persuade. Contest elections. Win. Change laws. Else you will be classified as enemies of the people.
Your claims to support liberty don't stand the slightest scrutiny.
Grow up and stop being silly spoilt middle class brats.
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Hi Sanjeev,
I think Anonymous is an international group. They tend to go after whoever is threatening civil liberty etc etc.
Also these ppl and many almost everyone on the internet are crying about ‘liberty’ and ‘free internet’ when the govt has banned TORRENT sites which is PIRACY – STEALING. Do we have a case to ask the govt to let us download and watch free movies in the name of internet? I’m a lil confused what does FREEDOM say?
All your points are totally immature, juvenile and flawed. You are living inside a dream world who has never ventured in the real world of Indian political system.
Also, you have no clue about the Indian freedom movement, and how we got freedom in 1947, when the Quit India movement was failed in 1942. Go read more of history.
When a silly party can come to power when even 70% people oppose it, it is not democracy at all. And this is the current situation in India.
Democracy doesn’t mean that you come to power and stop listening to people. Elections will happen in 2014, and that doesn’t mean that Indian citizens shut their mouth and wait for the voting time to come. In fact the ruling party lost badly in assembly elections of 2012 and it is still not listening to the plight of Indians. Are you smoking weeds? Wake up.
Anonymous are not people. Anonymous is an Idea. You have not even understood us and have started to write silly stuff about us. We are protesting and we are effective. We do not stop till we reach our goal.
Accountability is about the people who are in power. The MPs, MLAs and Babus are not at all accountable. There is Lokpal through which we can push them to work, and pull them down when they get corrupt.
And you ask protesters to be accountable. Are you cracking a joke on Indians.
BB
There is an HONEST way to protest and a DISHONEST way. The idea of hacking websites, computers, etc. is not just juvenile, it is a crime. I agree that the internet must not be curbed, but many “normal” restraints will still be required.
You need to pick your fight on specific issues and litigate them in court.
And please don’t give me a story that India is not a democracy. You have never voted, never participated in the politics, never shown your face to the people of India, and now claim that they haven’t made you Prime Minister so you can rectify the laws?
Follow the right path. Then talk about the right things.
Liberty is just too big an idea and you do it grave injustice by taking it down into the mud.
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There is no freedom to steal. Therefore the case against this ban is very weak. This is not a freedom of speech issue.
This can never happen! Without going out into arguments for/against liberty I can tell that 99% of Govt. offices themselves use Torrent to run their own computers (OPS etc.)
I was head of the IT department in Meghalaya (a department I was instrumental in getting created) in 1999 and 2000, but I don’t recollect any pirated software being used. All officers had an original Windows 98 installation. In fact, I recall clearly that the days of piracy in government were nipped dramatically in the bud through the efforts of NIC. I do recall using pirated MS-DOS version 2 or 3 once (in the mid-1980s), but all other software installed on my office machines was LEGAL and authentic.
I’m not sure what you are referring to, Soumik. The GOI has very clear instructions that no government functionary should use pirated software.
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ya my bro had gone to BMC to set some network. So wht if the men dont know to open IE but yes all software was OG.
what is OG?
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M dad is a superintendent in Central-Excise Service Tax department, he says all the office computers have pirated operating systems, aided with pirated anti viruses.
Central Excise is purely Central-Govt. office/department, so that speaks out for itself.
That’s perhaps because these are not coordinated by NIC. NIC has had a stringent anti-piracy policy.
@sanjeev
OG = ORIGINAL :)
Thanks, Allwyn. That broadly proves the point I was making, that government in India has been generally meticulous in nipping piracy in the bud. Exceptions, if they exist, are likely in those organisations which are not under the umbrella of NIC.
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