Re: [nukkad] Youtube censorship

["Rohit Mansukhlal" <>]

On 2/26/08, Mean Drake  wrote:
>
> Hello Nukkad-list,
>
> Yaaayyyy!!! Or should I say Yahoo! ... India is not the only country with
> strong moral police. Pakistan now blacklisting Youtube. Any such form of
> censorship shows me two things:
> 1. How insecure the government is.
> 2. Either the government thinks, or the people of the country really are
> morons.
>
> Same applies to Jodha Akbar ban in MP. In this case the Rajput community
> showed their mentally retarded status so I cannot blame the ruling party
> there.
>
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    Each community has its own moral norms, ethos and value system. Liberal
thought
    is good, but the transformation from age old rigidity to free wheeling
mind has to be
    gradual and in stages. It was the same rigid obnoxity of the Swiss
people that finally
    ousted Indian preacher Mahesh Yogi and a decade later it was liberal
America which
    evicted Rajneesh. USA didn't stop at his removal, it saw that no western
country allowed
    him a stay !
    Ask yourself what will be the uproar in Sindhi community in India and
across the world
    if someone were to produce a film titled ' Julelal The Jungler '
....................................
    Many reformists tried, too often in the past to try to bring in liberal
values in their respective
    communities, but hardly succeeded ............. despite genuine
intentions their haste costed
    them dearly, often their necks.

    Rohit Zaveri


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