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I love Indian government statements, they are always so transparently incompetent, inane and corrupt, as are the accompanying actions, like blocking a random PHP project on sourceforge.

I guess we'll just never know why they do these stupid things. By the time some bureaucrat has to give a statement all they can get out is terror, ISIS and anti India.

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Well, it's not exactly random. If you follow the link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/phorkie/

You can see it's the source code for the same sort of paste text online site they are banning all over the place in the other bans. It seems kind of nuts to ban all source code hosting and clipboard type hosting sites, but clearly they are trying. Wonder what's next, blogs that allow posting comments or signing guestbooks?

Obviously, they would have to proceed to ban PHP (since it allows to write such software), Apache (allows to host sites), Linux (the same), any OS supporting TCP/IP and finally conclude by going the North Korea way and disconnect themselves from the internet. That or people of India wake up and give those cretins long overdue kick in the ass and get some bureaucrats that are not completely insane.

That pro-ISIS guy that was recently id'd from Bengaluru was posting on Twitter. Is Twitter banned? Major oversight or perhaps it is random.

This impacts the average person more than any terrorist - such a delusional policy.

Post the offending content as a comment somewhere on the Indian government's own web site. They'll block themselves. Problem solved.

Being an Indian, I wish that this was true.

Would it be better if India was broken up into much smaller states, possibly more or less along the current internal borders? Is India really seen as a country by the Indians or is it seen more like a bunch of unwanted outside overlords ruling over your local part of India, whichever that might be?

I'm asking partly because I live in the EU where we are explicitly trying to create a big, state-like construction for most of our continent. In most cases I feel mostly like a "Dane" or "Scandinavian" or "Northern European" but in some cases I am actually starting to feel like an EU citizen, like we are all in it together, for example regarding Russia's behaviour in the Ukraine and elsewhere.

It is probably not correct to call the EU a country or a state yet but we are getting closer. On the other hand, if the Republic of India is actually a country then the European Union is too, isn't it?

We have a national identity that is very strong. And devolving into different nation states won't solve anything - it will lead to wars and violence and a broken economy. We would also be easy pickings for China and Islamic states like Pakistan. All our eastern states would be annexed by China in a couple of years. Kashmir and Punjab would be annexed by Pakistan. It is the Indian military and the fact that we have nuclear weapons that gives them pause.

What country reasons its existence on paranoia and fear factor. True India shall happen when federal states get functional and financial autonomy and decisions are not shoved down their throats through an imperial mechanism.

India is number of ethnic nations lumped together. But there is hardly any autonomy left.

Now I really wish there was a place you could comment on the Indian government's most incompetent decisions.

Calling everything "terrorism" reminds me of McCarthy and "communism" in the 50s.

I assume we'll grow out of it soon enough.

I doubt we'll ever grow out of it. They'll just find a new word.

They look so, but they are competent in maintaining the status quo, while doing whatever they fancy.

-- From Russia with love, huh. We have exactly the same kind of stuff here.

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