Blocking Orkut the Hindu way?

Found on India Times on Monday, 11 June 2007
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A right-wing Hindu group has asked public Internet centres in India to partly block access to Orkut, and is making a software to monitor abusive communities on the popular social networking site operated by Google.

The student wing of the Shiv Sena party said many Indians use Orkut to bad-mouth religious groups and disturb communal harmony, and also spread misinformation about India.

"We are gently telling Internet cafe owners that it is their responsibility to see that surfers do not use their facility to carry out such hate campaigns," he said.

"Or else, we will have to do that job for them." Last week, dozens of Shiv Sena workers vandalised some Internet centres, saying they were not stopping their customers from accessing Orkut groups involved in sending hate messages.

Right-wing Hindus who don't like that their religion is treated incorrectly and use that argument to justify violence? What about Ahimsa, one of the main tenets of Hinduism? You really can't use something that totally contradicts your belief and think it's ok. Gandhi understood that and rejected violence; and by doing so, he brought independence for India. "Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary"