![]() The Orkut incident "was trying to deal with a rumor mill. To be sure, outright comparisons to China are unfair. "The Internet giant feared the comments could heighten tensions at a time when thousands of mourners of the popular politician were emptying into the street," the article said. As The Wall Street Journal reported last week, Google Inc.'s New Delhi office removed material from the social networking site, Orkut, due to offensive material circulated about the late chief minister of Andhra Pradesh. A worldwide fan base has kept Savita and her adventures alive and continuously updated on the site.Ĭensorship in India, however, continues. Confessed one friend: "I just loaded the site on my phone." And if an Internet Protocol address is from outside India, for example, the site-now renamed and repackaged under -works. Tech-savvy fans, light years ahead of their public officials, have saved Savita from complete exile in her home country. Did a pivotal moment come this week as Google stood up to the Chinese and said it would no longer censor search results? For years, in the cliché tireless debates about the rise of India versus China, Indians have self-righteously warned that its status as a democracy would help India surge ahead. The Google-China showdown might change that. Libertarian columnist Amit Varma blogged, "This is arbitary, this is wrong-and it could happen to any of us tomorrow." But much of the outrage has died down now. For sure, columnists lashed out at the government in the wake of the ban. It is unfortunate on many levels, but it is more the collective silence that has been deafening. Agarwal did not return repeated emails seeking comment over the last few months from The Wall Street Journal. Then, after "personal and family issues" arose with his coming forward, he gave up, according to a press release on a site dedicated to saving Savita. ![]() Savita's creators were a mystery until U.K.-based Puneet Agarwal briefly revealed himself to fight India's censors last summer. …It's hard to justify pornography on the Internet." "Indian cyberspace is very free," he said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal this week. ![]()
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