Don't believe their lies

In his latest article, Shivam Vij, the most recent messiah for freedom of speech (after Arundhati Roy, Dilip D'Souza and most imams), carefully omits the fact that the original CET directive contained a list of sites 22 pages long. Indeed, we were eventually handed over a trimmed list, hastily typed on a piece of paper:


While many from the Congress PR machine initially tried to pass it off as an attempt by the Government to prevent terrorists from communicating, Dilip D'Souza has the most interesting theory:

Another postscript: MadHat has left a response to this post suggesting that this may all have been a typo, and perhaps the government meant to ban princesskimberly.logspot.com (i.e. leaving the "b" off "blogspot) -- which, it turns out, is some elaborate Bible site. ("AmazingBibleStudies", complete with chortling smileys shouting "Oh my Gaad" on top).

How 'bout some journalistic integrity, D'Souza? (We will cover it in our post analyzing the ban).

Here is the funny thing, Dilip somehow manages to pass himself off as a libertarian!

Dilip, it seems to me you're a libertarian (in the traditional American sense) -- is that right? (no pun intended)

Indeed, Dilip's cunning can be devastating for the uninitiated. Casual readers, please exercise caution.

Getting back to Shivam, we think the dude needs some basic lessons in journalism. One word: research. Granted that you were able to create a nice diversion by shifting the blame towards "babus" and incompetence of the ISPs (while conveniently omitting the important detail about the 22 pages), did you have to make those amateurish comments about some of the banned websites? For instance, hinduunity.org does not contain a hit list. Yes, the HTML file is called hitlist. html, but what it contains is a black list.

Hit list <> Black List

Likewise, www.rahulyadav.com is not run by a person who calls himself a member of the VHP.

'Commonfolk Commonsense' is a not a Chinese language blog, it is in Japanese.

Perhaps these minor details are not important to him. We can not expect any better from a welfare parasite weaned on propaganda all his life.