Facebook, Twitter, blogs, Microsoft, google+, orkut and many more social networking sites offers people from different part of the world to express their opinions freely. People express their feelings, emotions, frustration, love, anger against friends, parents, teachers, professor, college, university, and government system. Matter of the fact is that, world has seen the impact of social networking in political scenario of Egypt, Libya and currently in Syria. Many government of different countries were scared and banned such social networking platform in their countries, for example China.
Yesterday, Union Minister of India Kapil Sibbal ignited a talk in Indian society by censoring the content posted on the social networking sites. Kapil Sibbal support this initative of Indian government by saying that many contents posted on social media, can harm sentiments of community.
Personally, I agree with union minister, I have seen contents on the social media which are not in great numbers, but can become viral soon, which surely going to disturb communal peace in India. Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir, Omar Abdullah, unexpectedly supported the government decision to censor the content. Omar Abdullah also suffered the damage due to viral content which harmed his position and personal life. Mob stoned his car in Srinagar, when some individual sitting in USA, posted controversial fake content on internet related to his divorce and personal life.
I have seen fake articles posted on Facebook, about Sonia Gandhi, spreading false information about her family background and damaging her personal character. Also, people targeted Gandhi family on Facebook. It is evident that these are political attack on the Gandhi family and congress. Few political parties are trying to play an unfair game to influence young Indians and their political views.
Many journalists and artist are not supporting this decision and few of them also compared this to the emergency situation during Indra Gandhi's period. Their opinion is that it is against the right of freedom of speech.
Kapil Sibbal held talks with these social media companies and Facebook showed a positive reaction to this decision and ensured the government that their policy and features of Facebook going to help the Indian Government to remove such contents harming the sentiments of people.
I feel that its a good initiative but its one of the difficult task to censor so many content available on internet. People should understand their responsibility and duty to report such post published in social media. On Facebook features are available to report it as spam or abusive, people should utilize this feature to report the content and to maintain harmony and peace in the society.
If people in the society are responsible enough then it automatically reduces the unnecessary efforts of government and can concentrate on the more concrete issue of the society!
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Personally, I agree with union minister, I have seen contents on the social media which are not in great numbers, but can become viral soon, which surely going to disturb communal peace in India. Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir, Omar Abdullah, unexpectedly supported the government decision to censor the content. Omar Abdullah also suffered the damage due to viral content which harmed his position and personal life. Mob stoned his car in Srinagar, when some individual sitting in USA, posted controversial fake content on internet related to his divorce and personal life.
I have seen fake articles posted on Facebook, about Sonia Gandhi, spreading false information about her family background and damaging her personal character. Also, people targeted Gandhi family on Facebook. It is evident that these are political attack on the Gandhi family and congress. Few political parties are trying to play an unfair game to influence young Indians and their political views.
Many journalists and artist are not supporting this decision and few of them also compared this to the emergency situation during Indra Gandhi's period. Their opinion is that it is against the right of freedom of speech.
Kapil Sibbal held talks with these social media companies and Facebook showed a positive reaction to this decision and ensured the government that their policy and features of Facebook going to help the Indian Government to remove such contents harming the sentiments of people.
I feel that its a good initiative but its one of the difficult task to censor so many content available on internet. People should understand their responsibility and duty to report such post published in social media. On Facebook features are available to report it as spam or abusive, people should utilize this feature to report the content and to maintain harmony and peace in the society.
If people in the society are responsible enough then it automatically reduces the unnecessary efforts of government and can concentrate on the more concrete issue of the society!
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