Curtailing freedom: Threat to Indian internet users.

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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 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, Jagannath. "Our ideal is not the spirituality that withdraws from life but the conquest of life by the power of the spirit." - Aurobindo.

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