Cyberspace has become another tool in the hands of terrorists who post “motivated rumours” in social networking sites thereby creating a new challenge to security forces in the country, Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said in New Delhi on Thursday.
“There is increasing evidence of resort taken by terrorists to the cyberspace domain. The recent incident in Bangalore in Karnataka, Pune in Maharashtra and other states of the country where motivated rumours and irresponsible use of the social media networking media posed a new challenge,” he said addressing the country’s top police brass in New Delhi.
“Anonymity that the user acquires in this medium can sometimes test the capacities of even the most experienced police investigator. Police forces will have to develop skills in this area not just for locating malicious content but also for identifying those responsible for posting it,” he said inaugurating a three-day long conference of Directors General and Inspectors General of Police organised by the Intelligence Bureau.
The Home Minister made no mention of National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) in his speech.
Here it comes... another excuse to block freedom of expression and for
censorship!!! I agree the latest spread of rumors by some vested
interests (terrorists or otherwise) is not in the interest of the
nation but too are the censorship and freedom of expression... The
exodus happened not because the news spread but because our
intelligence agencies were too busy working for our politicians
instead of our nation (there was a nice article on this some time ago
in 'The Hindu'). Further, with ballot-politics one cannot find or
nurture talent to prevent such misdeeds. Of course, if we see the
declarations by Google more than 90% of the articles requested by the
Govt. to be removed were critical of the Govt. The police could have
been more efficient had they been working for the nation...
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