Scam fatigue. Simple truth. We are tired. In statistics,”, this is being called “convergence”. In as, India is now converging back to an era where there were them who would suffer extortion, and there are us who will go around shouting “corruption corruption” when people resist extortion.this is like many dependences coming together to form correlations, regardless of the variables thrown.Take any activity in Malaysia, and there will be a scam in them somewhere, and nabbing those scamsters has now become a reason for media noise. It all comes together, eventually, with no action against the really guilty and some fall guys going to jail for a while. Or injustice committed on them.
The government will not be issuing warnings anymore but will act tough against individuals whose extreme actions would only disrupt public order, said Home Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi
“Lim Kit Siang and Lim Guan Eng should differentiate political objectives and political measures from the implementation of laws. Do not politicise every law enforcement by the IGP and other agencies under the ministry.
“We will not compromise but will act in accordance with the existing Acts and enactments. We will not give anymore warnings, so don’t be angry with us when we take action,” he said at a news conference in conjunction with his first day as home minister, here.
He said the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) and heads of departments and agencies under the Home Ministry had been given the full power to carry out the task within their respective jurisdiction and without political interference.
Ahmad Zahid said any action taken by the ministry to maintain public order must not be regarded as politically motivated but was based on the existing laws of the country.
An Indian university lecturer landed in police custody in Dubai after he blogged against a private university based in Dubai. The arrest took place a couple of weeks ago when the professor was visiting Dubai on a business visa. He has now been granted bail, but his passport has been confiscated and he cannot travel, confirmed officials. It is yet unclear what laws he has broken, though Dubai news agencies attributed police officials saying that he was wanted “for blogging in India against a private university based in Dubai”.
The lecturer, who taught as a senior lecturer at the university between 2008 and 2012, had alleged that he was suddenly asked to leave without explanation or notice, following which he pursued the matter in Dubai court. After the court ruled in his favour, granting him end of service benefits, he blogged against the institution and even moved Karnataka High Court for what he termed was a gross human rights violation.
In an online public platform for raising voice against perceived injustice, the lecturer shared his story. “The matter was forwarded to Dubai Court by TECOM and the Dubai Court gave order to return my passport immediately. But I was surprised to know that they were not punished or penalized for violating the human rights. [sic]“
“During this fight against the University, I have known from the Dubai government and government of India, ministry of HRD and UGC (University Grants Commission) that the University’s Dubai Campus does not have approval to offer Indian degrees in the abroad campus. The director of HRD ministry filed a sworn affidavit in the court in this regard.”
The lecturer, qualified by UGC-NET in ‘Journalism & Mass Communication’, has taught in two well-known colleges in south India for five years before his stint in Dubai.
With social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter citing their stringent privacy settings to decline Indian agencies requests for data on users indulging in suspicious net activity, cyber security experts are exploring the option of promoting a ‘desi’ social networking entity as an alternative to US-based sites. The idea is to have a parallel Indian social networking site — possibly owned by a reputed domestic media house — offer competition to Facebook and Twitter, putting the latter under pressure to be more amenable to Indian security concerns.
Though China, which has its own Sina Weibo micro-blogging site and Renren to counter Twitter and Facebook, is the inspiration behind the proposal, India is not quite looking at blocking American sites like Beijing has done. A government official involved in cyber security planning told TOI that the US-based social networks, for which India is a large and lucrative market, would be directly affected by the entry of “Indian” networking sites. Eventually, they can be forced to fall in line with Indian cyber surveillance norms by either setting up servers in India or being more cooperative in parting with identity details of users posting objectionable content.
Officials involved with cyber security indicated that the idea is to use existing big domestic media houses to launch the alternative Indian social networking sites. This would guard against attempts by the foreign giants to snuff out competition by buying out any smaller Indian ventures. The government will act as a facilitator in creating the ‘desi’ Twitter and Facebook, and may even offer an initial financial push.
Over the years, Indian intelligence and law enforcement agencies have been struggling to get a favourable response from US-based giants like Google, Facebook, Yahoo and Twitter to their requests for tracking suspicious net activity. These US-based sites claim their privacy policies are governed by US laws alone, and any violation of their privacy agreements with clients would expose them to litigation in American courts.
With none of the social networking sites acceding to the government’s request for setting up servers here, something that would ensure they are bound by Indian laws, cyber security experts concur that the only option is to follow the Chinese model and set up a parallel, domestic social networking order. Beijing, prompted by suspicion that US-based sites were being used as a platform for posting anti-China content, blocked Facebook and Twitter in 2008 and 2009, followed by a similar crackdown on Google in 2011. It filled in the void by promoting its own Chinese alternative sites like Sina Weibo and Renren. The Voice of Student Dissent Is this the man on whom we depend to defend this nation? He won using aliens as voters. Can we trust him for integrity. Home Minister Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has defended his statement calling for groups unable accept the country’s political system to migrate to countries with … Read more
