Google's Orkut The Target Of Misplaced Blame In India
from the try-again dept
Neat Justin writes in suggesting that we absolutely must cover the latest story about Orkut "in trouble." However, reading through the long list of links he provided, it doesn't seem like Orkut (Google's social networking play) is really in very much trouble at all. Basically, it sounds like a lot of people are (perhaps reasonably) pissed off that some Orkut users created a "We Hate India" group. If you know how Orkut works, basically anyone can create a group in seconds, and anyone else can join it. Soon after that, there were stories about how Indian prostitutes were using Orkut as a way of finding clients. Then, a couple of weeks ago there were even more complaints about Orkut concerning tricksters putting up fake profiles of others, urging people to call or visit people, falsely claiming they were pornographers. Finally, this weekend, there were more complaints over some additional hate messages that had been posted to the site. Some of these articles cite India's Information Technology Act-2000, which apparently bans this type of activity, suggesting that Orkut may get banned by the government. However, it would seem that this is very misplaced anger. Once again, the problem isn't with Orkut, specifically, but the people using Orkut. If Orkut is blocked, the same people will simply go elsewhere and do the same thing elsewhere. It doesn't solve the problem, it just sweeps it under the rug for about half a day until the same things pop up somewhere else. Blaming the site pretends that if you block the site that the people who are actually responsible go away too. It doesn't work that way -- and, if anything, only emboldens them to find more and more places to make their point. The real answer is to go after the people directly if they are breaking the law -- not the site that carries their words.
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Same old story
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A classic example of the misuse of an otherwise beneficial technology!
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And this is when it's an Orkut's policy that if enough users raise an objection against a group, the group would be removed from the site.
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Interestingly, none of the news reports talking about Orkut's group being banned in India has mentioned the actual group which reportedly was banned in the country!
Even the much reported We Hate India group in Orkut has not been blocked in India!
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Create more groups of a positive / pro-India nature?
Google is the great leveller...
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Re: Why bother banning such sites?
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2. I have checked there is no "I hate Pakistan' community created in Orkut.
but interestingly there is a community called 'We hate I hate india community', which is against 'I hate India'.
It seem that Indians respects their ex-brother still a brotherhood.
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Hatemongers are here too
There cockroaches are everywhere. The best practice is just to ignore them
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Re: Hatemongers are here too
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why dont it stop
your comment about the getting the peoples behind it is pretty impressive if it i possible but again i have a wonder why after all this problems Google is not blocking just one site ,
i smell some commercial needs by Google behind it ,i went through many of my chatting room and its just like advertising
orkut , if its so , for making bad emotions part of so many of them ,such case Google is to be blamed ,so , i don't feel that the blame is misplaced ,
"and for the kind detail for other some comments" the topic is on "we hate India"group and the group is still there
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MISUSAGE OF THE WEBSITE
Pavan UK
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