Re: Is India a model Democracy?

[vamsi@siliconcorp.com]

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Padmanabha Rao wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Arun Mehta wrote:
>
>  There is an irony in people on the Net discussing what level of
>  censorship there should be for the rest of India.
>
> It's not about *censorship*. It's about *technology* and the 'abuse' it
> could provoke and so how to 'contain' that. No more. Further, the Net is
>
> just not comparable to the any of the other media -this is owned by the
> web/net servers and yet not controlled by them. In fact the Net probably
>
> defines the word media best: just a pipe, nothing more.

Of all the people on this forum, Mr. Arun Mehta is probably the most informed
about Communications Technologies.  I wouldn't try to explain trivial concepts
to him because it might run the risk of being "incomplete".

Sincerely,
Vamsi M.


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