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Should there be a censoring technique for Social Networks?

Created by : Puja Sarkar, Software Developer , Softpal Technologies Pvt Ltd  | 01 27 2011 09:32:13 +0000
Industry : InternetFunctional Area : Web 2.0 +(Technology)
Keywords : i hate gandhi on facebook censoring facebook censor on social networking sites i hate gandhi group censoring social networks
Activity:  491 views;  last activity : 08 16 2011 19:08:54 +0000

The past few days have seen a lot of action on and off Facebook. A Kashmiri lad was arrested for creating an "anti-national" group on the social networking site. This incident was followed by a FIR being lodged by an IPS Officer against Facebook and the creators of the "I Hate Gandhi" group on Facebook. Cut to present, the question arises as to what should be done to curb these anti-social elements who abuse these kind of platforms?

  
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Yes.....there should be some censoring....while there are a lot of prospects of using the social networking sites in a positive way, the opposites also exist. Agreed that there are just a handful of them, but these few have the capacity to cause much headache. There are some groups of people who do things for the sake of fun but do not realise that they might end up hurting people's emotions, religious beliefs and sentiments. And these may well end up in riots and bigger crisis.
By Puja Sarkar, Software Developer , Softpal Technologies Pvt Ltd  01 27 2011 09:32:13 +0000
 
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You cannot censor the social right of speaking out but what you can do is place an option for the readers to categorise the content as abusive to enable the social networking sites to censor the content.

Orkut has done that but not sure of others. That I think would be a better option than just enforcing on others what/ what not to speak in a public forum like social networking sites.
By Saibal Ray, Sr. Process Engineer, KPIT Cummins Infosystems  01 29 2011 10:24:21 +0000
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While society is made of bed and good things.Any god can not change this standard.So it should neglect bed side and accept good side.censorship is not a proper remedy for ever because good and bed is logically depends on social property.
By LAXMAN KESHWALA, Freelancer, Telecom/ISP  | 03 03 2011 15:11:24 +0000
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There should be Censorship without any further delay.
By s.baalu , Consultant, XYZ LTD  | 02 12 2011 08:16:20 +0000
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I don't think the social networks are misused. at least I don't come across. Still, it would be good to have censorship. Some of the blog's has already, they review the comments, before publishing. It would stop abusive comments.
By Anand Balasubramanian, Deployment Mgr,  | 02 06 2011 02:56:16 +0000
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Social networks pose great danger which are very subtle in nature enabling the owners to use the data as they deem fit.
By S. Muralidharan, Executive Director, Knowledge Foundation & Campus Around the Corner  | 01 29 2011 17:20:50 +0000
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 If not these may well end up in riots and bigger crisis.


By shubham agarwal, Associate/Sr. Associate -(Technical), Birlasoft Limited  | 01 29 2011 15:39:45 +0000
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Yes,to check cyber crime
By Goutam Roy Choudhury, Export Manager, Dasmesh Export  | 01 29 2011 13:38:29 +0000
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I don't think there should be censoring however cyber crime should be stopped!!!!
By Sragdhara Basu, MBA/PGDM student, Indian Institute Of Social Welfare & Business Management, Kolkata  | 01 29 2011 12:30:53 +0000
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Lots of cybercrime like cyber stalking are happening around.
By Sasanka Sarma, Faculty, NIIT  | 01 29 2011 10:07:42 +0000
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I agree with Puja.. Social Network is a good tool but can be misused and abused.. Hence there is some need to censor it..
By Ravindra Patil, Director - Marketing, Ultraliant Infotech Pvt Ltd  | 01 29 2011 08:45:07 +0000
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every coin carries two sides so the peoples are required to act positive its the internal feeling which can make the difference not the censoring techiniques.......
By vicky prasad, B.B.A Student, kumaon university ssj campus almora  | 01 29 2011 07:57:04 +0000
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ya ther can b.that too might hav its own limitations ,after all ther is a need for censorship in quite a many thngs wher people all age groups communicate
By mallikarjuna , networking, 3i  | 01 28 2011 11:06:10 +0000
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yes i agree with the thing that there should be censoring technique bcoz social networking doesnt mean you can say anything which is not socially allowed or good.....
By Ankur Mishra, Engg Trainee, NR Switch N Radio Services  | 01 28 2011 06:32:31 +0000
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yes but then it should be done up til a certain limit, or else there will be no use of social networking,
By Santosh A. Jadhav, Sr. Officer Sales  | 01 28 2011 05:09:40 +0000
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s i feel there should b some sort of censoring is required.we are dealing with so many personal and interpersonal relations too via social networks.all cannot be sensible. some may use for other purposes also which are harmful.
By jairaj shyam prasad, Production Manager, BOSCH Ltd  | 01 27 2011 15:51:47 +0000
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There should be censoring tool for sns but i hate gandhi not means i am against gandhi.. i proudly say that i hate nehru, sonia and rahul I appreciate indira.
By Hemant V. Gore, Freelance Software Developer  | 01 27 2011 15:41:06 +0000
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There should be censoring tool for sns but i hate gandhi not means i am against gandhi.. i proudly say that i hate nehru, sonia and rahul I appreciate indira.
By Hemant V. Gore, Freelance Software Developer  | 01 27 2011 15:39:18 +0000
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There should be censoring tool for sns but i hate gandhi not means i am against gandhi.. i proudly say that i hate nehru, sonia and rahul
By Hemant V. Gore, Freelance Software Developer  | 01 27 2011 15:38:31 +0000
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Though SNS were open to all in a group, there should be a tool to make things hide and show some soecific things to a those who need it exactly...
By Ganesh Ragavan, PROJECT ENGINEER, BYD Electronics India Pvt Ltd  | 01 27 2011 13:55:01 +0000
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It should be implemented ASAP.
By SHRIKANT MANOHAR DANKE, Project Manager, Phadnis Infrastructur Ltd  | 01 27 2011 13:00:50 +0000
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yes der shud b censoring..coz incidents lik dis can hurt people's sentiments n may provoke public 2 go violent causing loss 2 themselves..
By GIRISH I JADKAR, ASSISTANT MANAGER 1, ICICI Bank  | 01 27 2011 11:23:08 +0000
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Puja give me one good reason why censoring is necessary in social networking sites?

Any written statement will automatically recorded statement and, if the need be, one can always look into it.

I don't feel it is necessary.
By Rathin Deb, Freelance Retail Consultant  | 01 27 2011 10:46:47 +0000
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Yes, There must be a censoring team to check the contents of every site which is open for all.
By Anand Sharma, Monitoring the research funded by DIT, Department of Information Technology  | 01 27 2011 10:40:01 +0000
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Ofcourse yes! now how can this become one stop communication hub?
By Rajal Desai, Director = www.bhavyanet.com  | 01 27 2011 10:15:46 +0000
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POSSIBILITY OF CENSORING WEBSITES IS THE FARTHEST POINT, OF COURSE THERE MAY BE A HOST OF ANTI-SOCIAL ELEMENTS ROAMING AROUND THE WEB TO DISRUPT PEACE AND TRANQUILITY, THEIR INTENTION MAY BE EITHER TO HAVE FUN OR TO HURT SOMEONE, BUT THE FACT IS THERE ARE BILLIONS OF SITES EXIST ON THE WEB AND SCRUTINIZING EACH AND EVERY PAGE IS HIGHLY IMPOSSIBLE.

(APPROXIMATELY 20 34 00 00 000 WEB SITES EXIST AND THIS CALCULATION IS ONLY FOR THE YEAR 2010.....SO WHAT ABOUT 2011?????)

I WAS TAKEN ABACK WHEN I VISITED THE BELOW WEBSITE.

LINK REMOVED.
By Sairam. M, System Administrator  | 08 16 2011 19:11:12 +0000
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THERE SHOULD BE A FILTERING OPTION IN ALL SOCIAL NETWORKING WEB SITES SO THAT EVEN IF ANYBODY WRITES AN ABUSIVE LANGUAGE THAT WILL BE DELETED AUTOMATICALLY.
By Sairam. M, System Administrator  | 05 23 2011 16:50:45 +0000
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AS NO ANY GOD EXIST TO DO THE RIGHT CENSORSHIP IN A INFALLIBLE WAY, CENSORSHIP ALWAYS PRODUCES WRONG.
By AugusII , Freelancer, Technology Consulting  | 01 29 2011 20:30:27 +0000
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Social Netwok sites are meant to be where everyone can express everything without restrictions and limitations.If censored ,let it be personal site with restrictions.First of all people who want restrictions are not social and should not include themselves in such sites.No offense is meant to any one this is just my thinking.
By Mohammad Zakiuddin suhel, Freelancer, Technology Consulting  | 01 29 2011 10:25:43 +0000
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if there is a censoring technique for social networks then it's not call as a social network. Through social network you can speak any thing to any one. its is good medium to connect every body ha ha....
By Mayank pundir, Software Developer, Tatva Infosolutions [P] Ltd.  | 01 28 2011 05:56:37 +0000
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Everyone has a right to speak either verbal or non verbal
By dhiraj kumar, Freelance Journalist, none  | 01 27 2011 17:42:32 +0000
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The whole purpose of social networking will be lost.. everything is censored spare this medium.....
By Sudipta Bhuimali, Product Executive (PMT)  | 01 27 2011 11:31:36 +0000
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You must have the courage of listening to others. That's what the purpose of networking is. Why otherwise should you start a debate, if you have censored basic right of a person to speak against you in the name of censorship. It would be a shame if the very roots of public rights are censored with the notorious intentions of cooking corruption behind it. Btw, no matter I am personally a fan of Mahatma Gandhi, but at the same time i also think that you cannot force anybody to respect Gandhi or follow Gandhi's point of view. Your thinking that whoever hates Gandhi is antisocial or anti indian is very unfortunate. :(
By Vishwas , -, --  | 01 27 2011 10:49:06 +0000
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There is no need for any censoring technique i think,if one is so much concerned about his privacy i think he/she should remove their respective profiles from their social networking sites as many people often do after entering in some type of commitment.All these networking sites are simply to connect us to our friends and acquaintances,besides its an uphill task to provide censorship to so many number of users.They already have given the option of blocking the user whom you want to avoid.And even if they do so the complains will always be there(we recently heard about someone putting some derogatory comment in SRK twitter account which made the actor upset)
By Rahul Kumar Rai, I.T Consultant, Bennett, Coleman & Co. (The Times Of India Group)  | 01 27 2011 10:31:51 +0000
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