Controlling social media a pipe dream

What is the government up to? Not content with its embarrassing handling of the Anna Hazare campaign, various scams, the retail FDI Bill, and, in all probability, the climate change negotiations in Durban, it has now launched an effort to get social network operators to regulate communications. So Twitter, Facebook and Google, among others, are being encouraged to monitor and delete material that is "blasphemous" and hurtful to the sentiments of ethnic and religious communities.

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