India has always been a country of contrasts the hypocrisy of it is what we have gotten used to.Religion is the most used and abused tool of political choice and yet the common man has been grappling with laws that put a restriction on his very basic right of speech.
Section 66A of the IT Act 2011 very vaguely says
a) any information that is grossly offensive or has menacing character; orb) any information which he knows to be false, but for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience, danger, obstruction, insult, injury, criminal intimidation, enmity, hatred or ill will, persistently by making use of such computer resource or a communication device,c) any electronic mail or electronic mail message for the purpose of causing annoyance or inconvenience or to deceive or to mislead the addressee or recipient about the origin of such messages shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years and with fine.
Two years and a few arrests later the law today is amended not due to the efforts by the opposition or by the Information Technology bodies which house the who's of who of the industry but due to the efforts by the common man who was grossly affected by them.
We are a secular republic with the right to speak our minds though the only people who seem to be able to do it are the politicians . The original constitution gave the common man the right to free speech no questions asked the law was then amended by the congress to serve only one purpose "Political " the rising left and their questions including the then active and unbiased press which questioned the administration for its stand on the partition was conveniently silenced.
Today the press plays only for TRPS where the moghul clout of one media entity can totally overthrow the voice of another with sheer bullying.
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