It seems to me the great disconnect between ruling class of India and world reality is widening apart. Laws confining to a country is outdated in the Internet world-more ever, even the concept of a nation and country will cease to exist sooner than many people can even dream. Those who have read Plato's republic as Bible of "Ruling class politics" must have learned that world has been ruled by showing "control/sanctioned" over social action and "the republic" is dead!
As most of the social actions will be happening through social media, e-commerce, trading algorithm and emails, state will have diminished role to play or to impose laws in any of these. Just for an example, when two parties, let say one in India and another in Pakistan do business through a site like elance or Guru, their trading actions are auto-guided more by the algorithmic rule than by the laws of any country.
This high court judge from Delhi only conspicuously proved how ignorant Indian judges can be- not just about the realities of web world but about the laws as well-because laws are founded on the principle of achieving greater good for greater mankind- ulitarianism.
Blocking Google and Facebook amount to taking India back to Pakistan or Talibaan or prehistoric age. You don't stop research on nuclear power just because it can also deliver Atom Bomb. Nuclear power will be absolutely necessary for mankind. You can not ban Internet because it spreads porn.
Besides, what is obscene? It is a subjective choice and in Google or Facebook you can always filter your own feed. Technology offers you that option. In the days of Internet, one can not decide what is good for me-I am to decide what is obscene for me. Old authoritarian world is dead-a new free world has been born from the womb of facebook. You either accept it or take "Vanaprastha" in Himalaya.
