So it seems there´s this article about a Supreme Court ruling going around the blogging world scaring the living daylights out of everyone. The TOI article is here.

Now, I´m not really all that interested in the whole affair to go hunting for more information right now, but lets take a look at that news article. It reflects some of the many, many things that plague News reporting in India today, if not the world. The article calls the person a blogger, and then cites his creation of an Orkut community as the cause of the suit. Hello? The two things are very, very different. An orkut community moderator/owner should obviously be held responsible for the randomness in his community. If he cant moderate it, then he should get other people to do so instead. This is not about Freedom of Speech, and this is not about net neutrality. Abusing someone, even verbally, has always been looked down upon. But I digress. What pisses me off the most about the whole affair is that the news people seem to make it their only goal in life to blow news out of proportion, and usually that means that the reported news might have absolutely nothing to do with what actually happened. Reporters seem to be less and less bothered with keeping to the truth and staying unbiased. All they want is to put something that grabs the readers attention. I´ve given up on TV News channels long ago, but newspapers are now going the same way. It doesnt matter to them that the issue was about an orkut community and not a blog.

Rohit Jain writes that courts are stupid for allowing people to hate Sonia Gandhi and cracking down on vulgarism in that regard. I disagree. I am free to hate or love anyone I please, and my freedom of expression lets me say that I hate someone. Vulgarism and verbal abuse of that person, on the other hand, is not something that should be socially tolerated. Its one thing to talk about things among friends in a colorful, its another to put it out there on the web.

EDIT :Apparantly RohitJ didn´t mean that. I apologize for saying he did. If someone else thinks that, though, then my response is still valid.