Google Assists In Arrest Of Indian Man

An anonymous reader writes "After a Google user posted a profane picture of the Hindu saint Shivaji, Indian authorities contacted Google to ask for his IP address. Google complied. He was arrested and is reported to have been beaten by a lathi and asked to use the same bowl to eat and to use in the toilet. Not surprisingly, Google is a keen to play this down as Yahoo is being hauled over the coals by US Congress for handing over IP addresses and emails to the Chinese Government which resulted in a Chinese democracy activist being jailed." Readers are noting that these are 2 unrelated cases — the latter is several months old.

Gnostech!

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Hindu saints have IP addresses?

Re:Wow...

[InvisblePinkUnicorn]

You's didn't thinked the summary's quality were as good you had likening?

Worthless!

[Dread_ed]

This story is worthless without said profane pictures. Otherwise how can I acurately judge whether or not this person deserves to eat his own excrement. I need pictures dammit!! (Preferrably linked through Google images for the sake of almighty Irony.)

google better not do this at the Olympic Games to

[Joe The Dragon]

Google better not do this at the Olympic Games to people from the usa and people from the us should set up a script to endlessly Google stuff about Tibet.

asked?

[Paradise Pete]

and asked to use the same bowl to eat and to use in the toilet.

He was asked? Does that mean it was optional? I don't know about this guy, but I'd lean towards "No."

Re:Dont be evil

[bryanp]

.The motto is not "do no evil," it is "don't be evil.

Apparently they need to change it to

Do no evil*

*void where prohibited by law or the financial interests of our stockholders

Re:Mixup

[arktemplar]

Not sure I get this, why would me saying "Obscene" things about Sonia Gandhi get me in jail ? I thought that India had some of the better free speech laws out there, it's only the people like Shiv Sena etc. who mess around with this stuff. Also For the information of most of the people here - Shivaji wasn't a saint as such, just a highly respected king, so sumamry isn't quite correct about that bit.

I mean what was the situation (TFA has not got too many details)

Police : I CAN HAZ HIZ IP ?
Google : Of course, you want email access with that ? should we supersize the order ?

Re:Worthless!

[Farmer Tim]

If the punishment fits the crime, my guess is the picture is something like 2girls1cup...

Re:Gnostech!

[hansraj]

And while meditating their IP is 127.0.0.1 for "Truth lies within".

Even the Post Title

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

"Indian Man"

Something awkward and comic about this description. Curiously vague, while simultaneously exhibiting a misplaced precision.

Re:Even the Post Title

[bsDaemon]

I know... I thought they liked to be called Native Americans now.

Re:Hypocrites

[hansraj]

Hah! If real Indians lived in that continent you wouldn't have been able to even come close. All we would have needed to do was to add a few more spices to our favorite curry and gas you all invaders.

PS: The British managed to stay that long in India because they very cleverly stole all our spices and exported them out of the country!

Re:Wow...

[ichthyoboy]

Jar-Jar...is that you?

Re:Dont be evil

[Martin Blank]

It's actually on more than two of their pages. It's in a few places on their investor relations pages and on some other pages that discuss their policies. But you're right in that they're not announcing it everywhere.

Re:Sloppy Definition? maybe...

[wattrlz]

Did they have reason to believe that the man would have been treated this way? I don't know much about the conditions of jails in most other parts of the world. I suspect that jails in, say, Belgium are fairly clean and suspects' rights are generally respected

"...Alain Grignard, an OCSE prisons specialist who has evaluated Guantanamo on several occasions, including earlier this year, has concluded that Guantanamo's facilities and cultural sensitivity to Muslims is superior to that found in Belgian jails...."
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/clive_stafford_smith/2006/06/cultural_sensitivity_guantanam.html [guardian.co.uk]

See? They should have Googled it.

Re:Gnostech!

[kenj0418]

> Hindu saints have IP addresses?

They have to. Otherwise, how would American churches be able to offshore their Saint positions to India?

Re:Gnostech!

[mounthood]

Yes, but you can only use UDP, not TCP. (There are some secretive groups that say they can get ICMP to work, but I don't know about that.)

Re:He posted under his (almost) real name

[Anonymous Coward]

<br> tags are a privilege, not a right.

the three stooges?

[Anonymous Coward]

"I dunno, I could think of a few people who I wouldn't have issue hearing were being beaten, jailed, etc."

Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld?

Re:Even the Post Title

[aliquis]

I can't understand why Google helped them, it's not like it was a big deal. Just like all the bullshit because of those Mohammed pictures over here in scandinavia, I mean who gives a fuck? It's just an imaginary fictional character anyway. Personally I'd be willing to draw 50 Mohammeds or Shivajis eating their own shit for each complaint on them. (Or Jesus for all I care, or may I say it _YOUR MOM_ to whoever reads this :D)

Who cares, it's just a picture, feel free to answer with imageshack links of your drawings of me.

Re:compliance, not judges

[RiotingPacifist]

Flamebait is posting something that you *know* will start a fight.

No its not,you cock munching faggot!!!11(e^i6pi())

Re:Gnostech!

[TubeSteak]

And while meditating their IP is 127.0.0.1 for "Truth lies within".

My God's IP is 192.168.1.1
For he is the gateway through which all knowledge flows.

He also said to beware of gateways wearing false numbers, for those are the path to hell.
(That means you 192.168.100.1)

Is it that hard?

[Quiet_Desperation]

INDIA: We want that IP address.

GOOGLE: OK, it's... um... hmmm...

INDIA: What?

GOOGLE: Seems we had a glitch. A lightning bolt hit a tree that fell on a remote data center and knocked out power to a critical storage device, and also crushed it and set it on fire. And the original lightning totally erased it. And then a dog ate it. Sorry. *Total* act of God, there.

INDIA: This is unacceptable!

GOOGLE: OK. Let me forward you to our offshore troubleshooting expert.

OFFSHORE EXPERT: (In thick, Indian accent) Hello! My name is Bill Johnson! How may I help you today?

Re:Even the Post Title

[PawNtheSandman]

Could you title it "2 Gods, 1 Bowl"

Re:Gnostech!

[sm62704]

Hey! That's MY ip address!

Re:Even the Post Title

[Anonymous Coward]

1) Please do.
2) Post on 4chan with a news link.
3) ???
4) PROFIT! (Unless you're Indian. If you are, replace 4) with "EAT SHIT!".)

(Oh, "hostess" as captcha. Eww.)

Re:Gnostech!

[Glonoinha]

Ray! If someone asks if you're a God ... you ... say ... YES!

Re:Even the Post Title

[Anonymous Coward]

Hell - they could ask you or I the same thing, and we'd say no.

Speak for yourself Norm-o

Re:Even the Post Title

[cayenne8]

"I know... I thought they liked to be called Native Americans now."

No, the proper way to differentiate them is "dot" Indian or "feather" Indian.

:-)

I think that is the current 'PC' way....