Comments on: Facebook: A Mauritian tragedy?

By: zak

zak — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:57:37 +0000

Stand up and stand out, no authorities have the right to decide what you see, hear or do, unless its a matter that involves crime. Other than that, we are free and should remain as such, with no influence from anyone. If they get to decide for us, then who are we?

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Hide my IP — Fri, 22 May 2009 02:17:14 +0000

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By: avinash

avinash — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 12:57:32 +0000

avinash AT noulakaz DOT net

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By: Bruno

Bruno — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:44:46 +0000

Is lèse majesté a crime in Mauritius?

By: avinash

avinash — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:06:09 +0000

I don’t think you can compare the censorship of Facebook with piracy. One is about freedom and the other one is about economics.

By: Wadewa

Wadewa — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:17:26 +0000

Some dude played with the image of the Optimus Prime, some other dudes went bezerk and decided to ban the whole facebook to prevent any undesired effect.
Loads of mauritians jumped up and down crying ‘Freedom’ at the top of their voice.
Others listened to rage agaist the machine real loud with a ‘know your enemy’ pumping in their house. Its funny we mauritians mourn a free access to facebook but hapily allow pirate dvds, games and music albums to be sold everywhere on the island.

By: Girdhari

Girdhari — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:48:44 +0000

when we want to do something good every government of every country will always do something not let us go further. we must be patient and go on ” the dog barks and the caravan goes on”.

By: selven

selven — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:28:42 +0000

so according to you, what course of action facebook should adopt?

I believe there’s nothing facebook can do about it, its just as is, you report, then they remove, because you sincerely don’t want a central authority that authenticates you with your REAL information [i.e it links to somewhere with your national id card etc..] just to verify you are you, that would cause major uneasiness online community, and secondly many [me inclusive] would feel that there privacy is being destroyed.

Maybe facebook can give away information about the ip and time a fake profile was created… but then, you can’t really know what is fake and what is real online, and when you register they say they don’t sell your personal information without your authorization.

Now if you asked “what course of action facebook should take when it comes to mauritian government blocking it?”, then facebook has no words in that, it just have to STFU and remain quiet and let the government do its job!

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