After a strong online campaign against Internet censorship in India, the hacker collective Anonymous gave a call for public protests on the 9th of June. Unfortunately, these protests do not seem to have attracted any crowds. A report in Firstpost indicates that the Mumbai protest, which was supposed to be the biggest, had a crowd of just 200 people. More journalists seem to have turned up to cover the event that actual protesters.
The campaign has also not registered much impact in Bangalore and Hyderabad, both of which have a massive techie population.
There clearly is very little awareness about what is at stake in Internet censorship debate.
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Certainly it is because people don’t want to take risk in terms of their exhibitionism & support of hacker group “Anonymous”.
Who are the politicians to make decisions about internet censorship, Our govt cant do anything about piracy but they want to do internet censorship, Telugu Film Industry loses about 5Crores per big movie, but none are bothered. They should punish the sites for sure. but blocking the website in not legible and is not called for. Stringent punishments should be implemented. There is a lot of good content uploaded that is very useful and helpful for the citizens why block them..only bolck the offensive content but not the whole website.