As a lot of you probably know, Internet users in India have been recently blocked from viewing blogs. This kind of a universal ban on a certain type of web content prompts the question, 'could the government control the Internet?' While the Internet has certainly become the tool of the independant journalist, what of political influence could change what we can and cant say, read or do on the net? Surely no one posesses that kind of power. But it's happened in India for blogs, could the complete independant nature of the medium be threatened by the intervention of a higher political power? The Government has made itself seem favourable in the past, and even right now mainstream media is tainted in some way. The pivotal scene in the downfall of the Hussein regime, the bringing down of the statue, was a P.R. stunt manufactured to boost the credibility of the war. Could this happen to the net? Or are these two things unrelated and I don't know what I'm talking about? Only time will tell.
