How to catch the Internet with a Net…

The Government of India has just issued an Order…

Book Facebook!
Catch the Twitter Twits!
Log the Blogs for libel!
Take the yahoo out of Yahoo!
Shoot the MSN messenger!
In short…
Fence Cyberspace!
Catch the Internet with a Net!

Overheard…

An IT Minister: All I’m asking is for half-a-dozen companies to sift through a few billion status updates, pictures and links every day and remove the millions of pieces of content that are offensive to us. How unreasonable is that? These websites, I tell you…

A Congress Worker: That’s against us… that’s against us… that’s against us… (after a few thousand “That’s against us-es”)… hey! that’s against a particular community! Now we have finally got our peg!

© Sunil Rajguru

Cyberspace, you’re breaking my heart

So the Indian government wants to censor Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, MSN… again.

IT Minister Kapil Sibal is furious. Here’s a theme song especially for him…

Please read to the tune of Cecilia, you’re breaking my heart, by Simon and Garfunkel.

(Sibal…)

Cyberspace, you’re breaking my heart,
You’re shaking my confidence daily,
Oh, Cyberspace, I’m down on my knees,
I’m begging you please to censor those…

Cyberspace, you’re upsetting the applecart,
You’re shaking the government daily,
Oh, Cyberspace, I’m down on my knees,
I’m begging you please to stop being so loathsome…

Getting hate in those cartoons n pix in Cyberspace,
Up in my office computer (getting hate),
I got up to speak in a PC,
When I come back to the net,
There’s a few more tonnes of hate…

Cyberspace, you’re a big ole fart,
You’re leaving all of us politicians shaking with rage daily,
Oh, Cyberspace, I’m down on my knees,
I’m begging you please to get lost…
Go on, get lost…

(Cyberspace…)

Desperation,
The government’s lost it again,
I fall on the floor and I laughing,

Desperation,
The government’s lost it again,
I fall on the floor and I’m laughin…

(Original Song: Cecilia.
Group: Simon and Garfunkel.
Year: 1970)

This Spoof by Sunil Rajguru