The recent proposal of the Indian Government to regulate content on blogs, is a direct attack on the freedom of speech and expression that is guaranteed as a fundamental right under our Constitution. Censorship of blogs, would kill the medium of blogging itself. Blogging is amongst the most democratic mediums of free speech and expression, that the humanity could ever imagine. Blogging is luxuriously simple for anyone including a small child of eight to an old lady of eighty who does not know more than the basics of computers and the Internet. Blogging is free of cost and also free from the control of publishers and editors. To publish a book or an article in the pre-Internet era, the author needed a publisher whose editorial staff would accept or reject the publication, on their whims and fancies. A Blogger does not need a publisher. Blogging is also the most spontaneous medium of free speech and expression, that has a global audience.
Regulating blog content would rob blogging of its spontaneity and kill this great democratic medium of free speech and expression. Hence, it is imperatively necessary for every member of the Internet community to protest against regulation of blog content.
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