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by intended 5044 days ago
As opposed to India, where you know, we just asked RIM and Google to give us ability to snoop on all mails.

Or where we block sites at the drop of a hat, did you miss the recent instructions where the govt and their lap dogs went after social media? The new 'evil'?

At what point will you decide that for every flaw of theirs you can point out, there is also a tradition of civil rights and organizations fighting against infringements of those rights.

In the US, UK and many other countries biometric ID systems were shot down because of the huge issues they raised for civil rights.

India? We have a few people arguing against it and the rest of the country for it.

Whats worse, a lot of us are willful in our ignorance.