Intimidating the Blogger

The amendment in the Indian IT Act of 2008 has indirectly hauled in those providing web-hosting Services called as intermediaries, ISP’s (internet service Providers) and on line auction sites. However for some strange reason the term intermediaries has included Blogs within its ambit.
The blogs neither provide any service nor inculcate any large scale commercial interests so as to be clubbed within the aforesaid act.
The Govt under the onslaught of the hawk eyed media is desperately trying to brush under the Carpet the various Scams unearthed day in and day out and barely managing to survive the crisis by manipulating its numbers amongst the Coalition Partners.
The Blogs are primarily meant for people who love to write and who want to express their unreserved feelings, of events which in turn offers an insight to the eventual readers about the existing circumstances and sharing knowledge amongst them.
There is no compulsion on the readers to accept the opinions expressed by the blogger and they can either take it or leave it in toto.
There is no real threat as perceived by the UPA Govt which is seeing RED at the Blogs which according to them indulges in character assassination, based on irrelevant records, lacks in scientific approach, spreads communal hatred and all sort of negative trait’s .
It won’t be surprising if more of such illogical laws are enacted which will try to suppress and coerce the Private News Channels into the erstwhile outdated and obsolete era of ’Doordarshan ’.
Despite the Progress (which is obviously lop-sided) the mind set of successive Govts at the Centre hasn’t much changed and every opportunity is used to hide the nefarious activities of the netas and their brethren /next of kin, RTI activists are attacked threatened and even eliminated for exposing their Criminal links.
The Govt would have to retract this draconian Law which curbs the freedom of Speech -an inherent trait of Democracy once the movement against this is launched by bloggers and readers alike.
The same blood is running in the veins of the current young turks in this Govt which once tried to throttle democracy in 1975 by imposing emergency.
Whether this Gag Order remains or is withdrawn, the Pen will always be Mightier than the Sword.