Posted on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 07:50 pm:

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Are Indians allowed to use the Internet to criticise politicians and officials? If Google's latest 'Transparency Report' is any indication, the police in some States don't seem to think so. In the last six months of 2010, law enforcement agencies across India asked the web search company to remove YouTube videos and a blog "that were critical of Chief Ministers and senior officials of different States." Google says it did not comply with these requests.

In all, Google received 67 content removal requests from India between July and December 2010, covering a total of 282 items. Six of these requests were from courts and the rest from the executive, police and others.

The search engine said that 22 per cent of removal requests were fully or partially complied with, and the rest declined. It also received 1,699 "user data requests" from the government — euphemism for the police wanting a peek into the search and usage habits of targeted individuals — and complied with 79 per cent of these. However, no details were given.

Giving the break-up of the "content removal requests" from India, the search engine said that of the 50 requests for removal of items from its web search, 15 pertained to defamation and 16 to national security. It was requested to remove one item from Google Images and two from Google Profiles which pertained to •••••••••••. From YouTube videos, the search engine got 199 removal requests.

A comparison of requests received by Google from other countries during the same period shows the number of content removal requests increased by 83 per cent from Argentina as compared to the previous reporting period.

While the number of user data removal requests from India increased by as much as 123 per cent, Australian requests went up by 72 per cent and Hong Kong's by 80 per cent.

From Italy, the search engine received a request from the Central Police for the removal of a YouTube video that criticised Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and simulated his assassination with a gun at the end of the video. Thailand asked Google to remove 43 pieces of content "because they were mocking or criticising the king in violation of Thai lèse-majesté laws." The company restricted Thai users from accessing these videos.

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Posted on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 01:16 pm:

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Idiot1:

mamu ee 95 meeda traffic endi time tho sambandham lekundaa

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Posted on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 01:08 pm:

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Nippu:

hyd lo samaykhandra ani tirige leberty vunda janalaki .

state capitol lo.

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Posted on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 01:06 pm:

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Getafix:

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Posted on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 01:02 pm:

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Kamal:

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Posted on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 12:57 pm:

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Getafix:

kani syria,burma,sudan,yemen lanti desallo atla chesthe torture or murder chesthundi govt simple ga.

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Getafix:

btw,Ang san Sukyi speech document chaduvu.. last lo Q&A undhi Sukyi tho.. one of the interesting question was - whether Suu Kyi's non-violence approach is working against military regime in burma? Tunisia and Egypt lo months lo govts topple ayyayi kani Burma lo 1988 nunchi authundi revolution - why has it not yielded any change ani.. very interesting Q&A. Must read.

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Posted on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 12:56 pm:

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Nippu:

hyd lo samaykhandra ani tirige leberty vunda janalaki .

state capitol lo.

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Posted on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 12:55 pm:

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Getafix:

poverty,corruption, lack of literacy etc etc lanti problems tho liberty or freedom link pedithe ela..

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Posted on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 12:52 pm:

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Kamal:

84 crore people .. who live on less than 20rs a day .. or a single meal ki .. emunnayi liberty/freedom?

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Posted on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 12:50 pm:

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Xxx:

Daily labour gets 300 with no skill in india, get some skill and you will earn money,
and funny to say you have no freedom in India,

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Posted on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 12:40 pm:

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Kamal:

on less than 20rs a day .. or a single meal ki .. emunnayi liberty/freedom?

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Posted on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 12:39 pm:

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Getafix:

The man is a symbol for eternity, for all the world," says Tunisian movie director Mohammed Zran, who plans to make a feature film about Bouazizi. "For me he's more important than Mandela or Gandhi or Martin [Luther] King [Jr]. Really. Because with his act we are seeing, watching everywhere revolution

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Posted on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 12:31 pm:

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Getafix:

We are far more matured as a nation than nations which are seeing revolutions now. Mana desam lo corruption undhi agreed kaani liberty and freedom ante i absolutely do not agree.

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Posted on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 11:00 am:

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Getafix:

liberty and freedom

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Posted on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 11:00 am:

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Sanman:

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Posted on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 10:45 am:

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Getafix:

Tunisia

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Getafix:

Burma

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Posted on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 10:34 am:

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In Tunisia, the suicide of a young fruit seller touched off a wave of wider unrest across the Middle East. In Myanmar, it was the death of a student that triggered 1988's uprising against the country's military rulers.

"In Tunis and in Burma, the deaths of two young men were the mirrors that made the people see how unbearable were the burdens of injustice and oppression they had to endure," Suu Kyi said.

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Posted on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 10:26 am:

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When cousins visit the Bouazizi family's humble cottage, they take turns paying homage to the family's most famous son -- the man credited with kick-starting uprisings around North Africa and the Middle East.

"Kiss the martyr Mohammed," a woman says, as she holds her daughter up to a portrait of the young man, which hangs halfway up an otherwise bare wall. The large poster identifies Mohammed Bouazizi as "the spark of the uprising of dignity." It's not only his family that feels this way.
Several blocks away, another huge portrait of the 26-year old man hangs from the top of a golden monument in the center of Sidi Bouzid, alongside banners proclaiming it is now "Martyr Mohammed Bouazizi Square."

Many Tunisians call Bouazizi a hero for setting himself on fire outside a government building. He is credited with galvanizing ill-feeling against governments across the Middle East and North Africa into actions that has seen demonstrations, uprisings and revolution.

"The man is a symbol for eternity, for all the world," says Tunisian movie director Mohammed Zran, who plans to make a feature film about Bouazizi. "For me he's more important than Mandela or Gandhi or Martin [Luther] King [Jr]. Really. Because with his act we are seeing, watching everywhere revolution...

High praise for a man who just three months ago, was an unknown street vendor struggling to feed his family by selling fruit. Bouazizi earned the equivalent of barely $10 a day pushing his fruit cart through the streets of his down-on-its-luck Tunisian town.

On the morning of December 17, a female municipal inspector named Faida Hamdy accosted Bouazizi. An altercation erupted during which Hamdy the inspector seized Bouazizi's fruit-weighing scales. Locals and Bouazizi's relatives also say the inspector slapped Bouazizi, an allegation CNN could not independently confirm.

After the incident, the humiliated fruit vendor repeatedly tried and failed to get the attention of town officials. Then something snapped. He purchased fuel, doused himself with it, and lit a lethal flame outside the gates of the governorate building.

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