I sent it just to make your day/weekend, C'da. Did it work? :) Seriously, I think its the proper and measured response. Its one thing to ensure freedom of expression, but quite another to allow someone to fan anti-national feelings in the name of freedom of expression. The Patriot Act II is much more restrictive, isn't it?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chan Mahanta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Alpana Sarangapani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 3:55 PM Subject: Re: [Assam] India's ban on Internet forum > What do you think of the Indian Govt. response, A? > > > c-da > > > > > > > > > At 11:45 PM -0500 10/2/03, Alpana Sarangapani wrote: > > Has anybody heard of the group called 'Kynhun' ? Read it in Houston > >Chronicle (AP news) this morning that "a ban on an Internet discussion > >group run by an obscure separatist movement has ended up blocking access > >to popular unrelated Yahoo forums in nearly all of India." The forum is > >called "Kynhun Bri U Hynniewtrep", "which has about two dozen members and > >is run by a separatist group called Hynniewtrep International Liberation > >Council. The little-known organization says it represents the ethnic > >Khasi people and wants their home region, a small slice of the country's > >north-east, to secede from India." ---- What's new? Seems it happened > >at the end of last month. Here is a web site: > >http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3148288.stm____________________ _____ > >______________________ > >Assam mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/mailman/listinfo/assam > > > > _______________________________________________ Assam mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/mailman/listinfo/assam
