"First they came for the communists..."

The biggest promise of the World Wide Web was the free flow of ideas & information. It is coming to a swift end. Very sad, indeed.

• Google to censor content on per-country basis
• Twitter to censor content on a per-country basis
• The Indian IT Act 2008 & Information Technology (Intermediaries guidelines) Rules, 2011

I wonder what Tagore would say about this:

"Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;" 

PS: For those wondering about the post title, read the entire poem/quote