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Cyber cafe owners in Bombay, the financial hub of India, are a scared lot – reason being Orkut, the most popular social networking site of India that’s owned by Google.
Shiv Sena youth (the self-proclaimed religious police of India) that try to ban everything from Valentine’s day to pubs & discos to (so-called) adult movies have now turned their attention to Orkut.
Last week, dozens of Shiv Sena workers vandalised some Internet centers, saying they were not stopping their customers from accessing Orkut groups involved in sending hate messages.
Internet cafe owners have received a letter from the group saying that if they did not spot and stop people surfing Orkut to spread hate messages, their businesses would be attacked.
The funniest part is that cyber cafe owners are being asked to block access to only certain communities of Orkut, not the entire Orkut.com domain.
Not sure if that is possible but the Shiv Sena engineers are already working on such a software and it should available in the next 2 or 3 months. (Google, would you be interested in acquiring that software ?)
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/india/interesting/ban-orkut-else-we-block-your-cyber-cafe-business/337/
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Reader Comments
You people are worried about orkut getting banned. Let me tell you that you get paid to be born. You pay to get buried. What else can be painful then this? – Symbol; of human nature. People should be worried about themselves and not that some site is banned. Orkut was banned in our office for same reason -fear of terrorists and anti social elements misusing orkut.
Written by NEIL SEQUEIRA on 06.10.07