India: No intention of banning the BlackBerry

Country's telecommunications department to meet with the operators of RIM's service regarding security concerns.
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[atish505]

Draconian censorship and monitoring

India's government is up to the same dirty tricks and draconian censoring and monitoring as their counterparts in China.

They do not even need any warrant or court permission to monitor emails or telephone conversations.

[pokiri]

Phew

But not as bad as China ;-)

[lostsomewhere]

its only monitoring

what censorship???
its only monitoring...
and that happens in world's most advanced countries also.atleast in india they are not recording the phone conversations based on certain keywords.


china works on censorship.
india works on monitoring..
usa works on monitoring
EU works on freedom

[krosavcheg]

Censorship is a U2 Manager's vision of the future of Internet _here_

It is not unique to China, India, Russia, ...

http://www.mediafuturist.com/2008/02/welcome-to-paul.html

Paul McGuinness’ next version of the Internet: policed, censored, throttled and fully under his control