Kapil Sibal aims to restrict freedom of speech on the internet!
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Mahesh Murthy posted a pretty solid post on this issue on Google Plus...
He instead went on the Congress (I) mouthpiece channel NDTV and said what he was really worried about was pornographic religious imagery. Wow, such concern! (Never asked for pre-screened online content: Sibal to NDTV ). He said “There were some demeaning, degrading, clearly pornographic depictions of gods and goddesses”. This seemed reasonable on the surface, but only till you look deeper.
Sibal was proved to be a liar a second time too within minutes. Google’s own transparency report (India – Google Transparency Report) showed that the Government, so apparently concerned about all this apparent religious hate imagery had not asked through official channels for those to be taken down. Of 358 specific requests for content takedowns, only 3 referred to items about religious hate and those were removed. The vast majority were about politics and politicians, including 255 pieces of content classified as “government criticism” and those, in keeping with Google’s published policy, were not removed. All of those are visible today too.
Further, and Sibal knows this, as his department drove for the creation of our IT Act, religious hate speech and pornography are already illegal under our Cyber Laws: do refer to Sections 66 and 67 here: (http://www.mit.gov.in/sites/upload_files/dit/files/downloads/itact2000/it_amendment_act2008.pdf) These sections have already been used to take down illegal material online in the past.
Indeed, what the websites said was that they would always comply with Indian law, if there was a law and court order. But of course, that doesn’t suit Mr. Sibal - being a lawyer himself he knows criticism is not a ground a court can issue an order on. The law does not see “government criticism” as illegal. What Sibal wants is extra-judicial powers. Beware - that's exactly what Berlusconi wanted. And Hitler too.
He instead went on the Congress (I) mouthpiece channel NDTV and said what he was really worried about was pornographic religious imagery. Wow, such concern! (Never asked for pre-screened online content: Sibal to NDTV ). He said “There were some demeaning, degrading, clearly pornographic depictions of gods and goddesses”. This seemed reasonable on the surface, but only till you look deeper.
Sibal was proved to be a liar a second time too within minutes. Google’s own transparency report (India – Google Transparency Report) showed that the Government, so apparently concerned about all this apparent religious hate imagery had not asked through official channels for those to be taken down. Of 358 specific requests for content takedowns, only 3 referred to items about religious hate and those were removed. The vast majority were about politics and politicians, including 255 pieces of content classified as “government criticism” and those, in keeping with Google’s published policy, were not removed. All of those are visible today too.
Further, and Sibal knows this, as his department drove for the creation of our IT Act, religious hate speech and pornography are already illegal under our Cyber Laws: do refer to Sections 66 and 67 here: (http://www.mit.gov.in/sites/upload_files/dit/files/downloads/itact2000/it_amendment_act2008.pdf) These sections have already been used to take down illegal material online in the past.
Indeed, what the websites said was that they would always comply with Indian law, if there was a law and court order. But of course, that doesn’t suit Mr. Sibal - being a lawyer himself he knows criticism is not a ground a court can issue an order on. The law does not see “government criticism” as illegal. What Sibal wants is extra-judicial powers. Beware - that's exactly what Berlusconi wanted. And Hitler too.
Unable to intercept data on platforms like BlackBerry, Gmail, Nokia Pushmail and Skype, Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal met Interpol Secretary General Ronald K Noble recently to discuss intercept mechanism of such communications which would help in combating telecom crimes.
This was one of the agenda items at a recent meeting between Sibal and Noble who discussed the potential partnership with India in combating telecom crimes in India and other issues of mutual interest.
India to seek Interpol help to intercept encrypted data on platforms like BlackBerry, Gmail, Nokia Pushmail and Skype — economictimes.indiatimes.com — Readability
This was one of the agenda items at a recent meeting between Sibal and Noble who discussed the potential partnership with India in combating telecom crimes in India and other issues of mutual interest.
India to seek Interpol help to intercept encrypted data on platforms like BlackBerry, Gmail, Nokia Pushmail and Skype — economictimes.indiatimes.com — Readability
If their pockets are getting filled, then why wudnt they? Even if Sibal caresses his non-existent hair or may be flaps his arms to whatever extent he can, enuf money will pop out so that the Interpol Secretary General's 7 generations can just enjoy, without having to earn.(PS: This statement wud have had a better impact if it was written in Hindi.......but then it wud b too unfair on members who dont understand the language well)
can somebody explain to Mr.Sibal what encryption means, it means it cannot be spied upon that's the whole idea of it, of course it depends a lot on what kind of encryption, like on RIM, the heart of any encryption the RSA key is on that cell , it is not even in RIM servers so basically it cannot it be broken in real time, gmail right now uses end to end https , but mails can only be read from google servers only they can get to them , and soon gmail is introducing a new format in which mails cannot be even on decrypted on their servers , something like p2g so unless you have the RSA key you cannot do anything . these guys should really learn the tech 1st before opening their mouths.forget about what you see in movies when they say 'oh the disk or cell is encrypted but we will break in in couple of hours' . NSA spend 2 or 3 years and tons of money in trying to break a system encrypted by true crypt they were not able too. a simple 256 bit encryption would need all the super computers in the world lined up on it for some 10000 years [ if you don't have the RSA key] , given the current technology, a 2056bit well just forget about that , and that is what every company and their severs uses right now.
:haha:well to be frank it is not just our minsters , nearly 70% of world politicians have tech phobia, we are just unlucky to be stuck in this generation with them, hopefully the next generation would at least know what they are taking about. [ we can pray on that ] 
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