I came across this several days ago, but I could not find one article specifically saying which cafe's were enforcing this "official ban" from the government regarding the warrior king Chhatrapati Shivaji (which caused some protest earlier).
I suspect this article was written more to draw eyeballs to the screen, but I'll let you be the judge of that.
The article goes on to explain that the order was supposedly given by the government to the internet cafe owners, although many of the owners are denying ever receiving instructions from the local authorities.
The cafe owners seem to be asking their users not to log onto Orkut, but ironically they are not:
Could it be that Orkut is just way too popular in India and that censoring may affect their profits?
I suspect this article was written more to draw eyeballs to the screen, but I'll let you be the judge of that.
(Times of India) Due to the heat Orkut has generated in the past few days, cyber cafe owners here have decided to play it safe and told their customers verbally or through notice boards that logging on to the online community website is expressly banned. [...]
More recently, during the winter session of the state legislature at Nagpur, Shiv Sena MLC Arvind Sawant had demanded that the site be banned for 'obscene posts against Hindu women on the website'.
Since then, fearing legal hassles, cyber cafe owners have asked their customers to refrain from logging on to orkut.com.
The article goes on to explain that the order was supposedly given by the government to the internet cafe owners, although many of the owners are denying ever receiving instructions from the local authorities.
The cafe owners seem to be asking their users not to log onto Orkut, but ironically they are not:
- blocking access to the site
- banning members who use the site
- requiring a silly disclosure removing owners from legal harm
Could it be that Orkut is just way too popular in India and that censoring may affect their profits?
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