Sibal can't keep us from morphing dear leaders

The fine art of irreverently distorting dear leaders’ portraits dates back to the pre-Internet era; some of India’s older walls will attest to this. Perhaps our communications & information technology minister inhabits a cocoon where such irreverence escaped his eyes, until now. Kapil Sibal has now spotted morphed images of Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi on social media and he is determined to take them down—if similar desecrations are being visited upon opposition leaders, the minister remains blissfully oblivious. He has told senior functionaries of these Websites (Facebook, Google, YouTube, Yahoo!, et al) to start filtering such “defamatory” content. He has also called such content “inflammatory”.

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