Insane logica

Ahh...! Dudes, days are going to be tough...! I have heard that your PM/PL/GL don't allow you to open Orkut and IMs at IBM and all other proxies like meebo are kept blocked. Even if you manage to get some new proxies which is unknown to the network administrator, you are not supposed to do so. I pray to GOD and I wish, at least they allow Orkutting and PGing (there is no other way to get out of stress while working). This really sucks....!!!! Now, 10 more months of B.Tech are left and they (not IBM People though) are planning to ban ORKUT. This is very shocking and dreadful news to all adored of Orkut.


However reasons for banning ORKUT is very obvious to all. Such networking organizations makes one avail of opening any kind of discussion forums they want to talk about. I have been on Orkut for some 2 years. As a newbie, as all of us do, i found plethora of profiles and communities, which are interested largely to harm the prides of nations, celebs, saviors, and prominent personalities like Mahatma Gandhi, Pt. Nehru.... Erotic profiles with nude pictures have been proliferated these days. All we know orkut is affiliated to Google - a software Jumbo which is challenging Microsoft and Yahoo. Do we expect Google kind of company to offer us such kind of freedom?? This is true that world is a home for several communities having different paths and sometimes very opposite to each other. Orkut is offering all such bands to talk online whatever they want for. Lot of hate communities, rebellious organizations, millitant groups are using Orkut and other such networking sources to spread there messages to the rest part of the world and their peers.


A very good example is ULFA (United Liberation Front of Asom ), the banned millitant BAND of Assam. ULFA frequently makes use of Internet to attract sympathizers for its cause, with ORKUT being used for the purpose. ULFA is a well known tech-savvy, with its pawn of "Freedom", which are updated on internet through orkut on a regular basis and the statements are e- mailed to the peers. There are some orkut profiles of such persons concerning ULFA which declares themselves as Messiah and there scrapbooks and testimonials are found filled with supports and critics on opening such communities. They come up with the messages like India is a terrorist country and Indians don't take care of Assamese. ULFA introduces their millitants as Brave Soldiers and they aim "to bring together all the rebels and rebel groups of the northeastern region". Some members of these communities speak up against their community, with many other communities in ORKUT itself working on restoring peace in the state and NE region. Several communities are present, with huge memberships, which propagate a positive campaign and question the role of the militant groups in disturbing peace in the region in the name of struggle for sovereignty. The anonymity ORKUT is offering to its users could be abused by ULFA members or supporters to attract sympathy for the outfit, especially among the upcomingma generation. To explore these kind of activities by ULFA, a very good article on IBN Live is there.


Now the million dollar question which arises here is - Should we ban ORKUT? The recent news and happenings related to same what i mentioned above can be seen as a hot matter of talk among the orkut users. A bunch of orkut users, which i am a part of instead, login orkut to see their friends online, have a talk with them, hellos, byes, take cares..... There are many advantageous communities where people do share there views and ideas related to a particular matter of discussion whatever its span be - scientific, philosophy, spitituality, religious, cultural, chit-chats, puzzles, automobiles.... The activist group like Shiv Sena in Maharashtra and Goa has come up with the urge of banning orkut completely. The Shiv Sena has a point, what they're saying is valid in a certain context. The 'non-shining' India – close to 70 per cent or more – is not happy about some empowered 'haves' maligning their heroes. 'Shiv Sena activists ransacking cyber cafes!' is the type of news which came up in nearest past. More recently Mumbai Police has asked to ban Google/Orkut to block such offending communities and profiles instead. Now personally i have few words to say. I am a Trainee Pagal (Puys exceeding number of posts greater than 30 and less than 100 are called Trainees - A PG lingo.), using pagalguy (an online forum for CAT aspirants) for some 2 months and it has been very obvious that few moderators are there who themselves are PG members (mostly Certified Pagals). These moderators are very strict if you post irrelevant things in particular thread, in fact they comment and direct you to go to the thread which is having a place for your post. So, this is one of the best example that how such kind of moderation fix you in a limit, which you can't go beyond. What i meant actually is, yes ofcourse we should ban, not orkut or google, but banning the malicious communities and profiles, which are intended to harm the peace and pride of a nation or people or a personality will do instead. Google should use some sort of moderations to restrain on such communities and profiles. This is the unanimous voice too, DON'T BAN ORKUT!

# posted by Dee @ 9:02 AM