However in India, although everyone agrees with free speech in principle they also agree that there should be limits to free speech while totally unanswering the question of who would impose those limits. We’ll even go to the extent of inciting or threatening violence against people who have a different view of a man who in fact preached the opposite. No one would for a moment wonder what would Gandhi do. In fact, in the popular movie on Gandhigiri he addresses this question and encourages people to pull down his statues that dot every Indian town junction. There is no dearth of people in India who would get offended at the slightest hint of disagreement or humor that pokes fun at them
Patrix writes about the recent Gandhi Youtube controversy. Threatening to ban Youtube over such trivial issues doesn’t make any sense at all.
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