Dear Sirs,
After the blotched attempt to suppressing blogs, the Indian government is now
considering looking into the mailboxes of "suspected terrorists" as per a report
in todays TOI. Who is ensure that this clause, ostensibly for security measures,
will not be used for political vendetta? We have already seen how phone tapping
has been used for political gains. Ultimately moves to monitor the internet will
affect us all.
I guess we may soon see Yahoo bending backwards to obey the orders of the
Indian government as they have done publicly in China and secretly in the US.
Instead of taking apropriate measures to curb the illegal use of the internet,
governments find it easier to impose blanket measures that affect all, including
genuine and serious users of the internet. The media too will favour this as all
over the world people are depending more on the internet for unbiased news,
resulting in falling sales of newspapers and TRP ratings of TV channels.
We should fight these moves by protesting and pointing out alternative methods
to stop internet abuse.
Regards,


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