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You hear it on TV everyday India and China, India and China and how they are going to kick everyone’s behind. China, yes. But India is a joke. Everyone knows it but nobody says. Except for Hillary Clinton, as it was revealed in the Wikileaks documents. She said, paraphrasing here, [They are so delusional only they believe it]. Think about it, India does less trade with the U.S. than tiny Switzerland. Its embarrassing, yet India is of the opinion that they are the same as China, which is the U.S. largest trading partner and pretty much every other country’s.
Today, India passed a new internet law that requires 21 internet companies including Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft and others to removed content from some Indian domain websites to protect religious sensibilities. It is a “China” like crackdown. More on Reuters.
The companies have been ordered to develop a mechanism to block material considered religiously offensive after citizens took them to court over images deemed offensive to Hindus, Muslims and Christians. Its complete garbage in my opinion.
Why copy China, on backward matters. Copy China on things that will move India forward not backward. It’s already 5,000 years backward.
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Seriously, which idiot wrote this and how did this ever make past the editorial desk? Nothing to disagree on the main point about laws but the writing is complete trash.
Comment by Sachin — February 7, 2012 @ 10:28 AM
I have a few simple words for you – Learn to respect other people's culture and relegion! And for your and Hillary Clinton's information – India doesnt need to trade with US to make it kick everyones backside…It ownn a vast majority of the worlds intellectual capacity…look around, Doctors, SOftware professionals in and around the World and you will see how many Indians impact our World
Comment by Anonymous — February 7, 2012 @ 12:11 PM
Way to go, Daya. Write a post that gets you page views. Then return to writing about truly weighty matters like page views, click views, click throughs, page turns, head fakes.
Now for some education for you —
- India has more engineers than the US does.
- India has a FAR younger population than the US does.
- India has a FAR more active democracy (measured directly in terms of people voting) than the US does.
- India's middle class spending, as a percent of its GDP is already bigger than the US. And its growing faster than the US.
- Less than a tenth people are killed in India – with guns or any other weapon – than the US. And the US has a third the population. That's a 30x difference.
- India actually has health insurance for people who can't afford it. Most civilized countries do. Does the US?
These measures matter to people who have half a brain. Which by definition excludes you.
Better to stick to things that you know. But I suppose that would make for a difficult career in writing.
Comment by nms — February 7, 2012 @ 3:50 PM