Should we be taming social media?

Kapil Sibal, India's telecom minister, this week appears to have drawn more attention with his proposal to pre-filter the content on social media Web sites than all the publicity he got for some of the good work he did in the area of education. The hashtag #IdiotKapilSibal emerged as one of India's most tweeted on Tuesday. (read more)

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Same goes here. Those top guys and politicians are only looking things from their perspective and propose solutions from their view and what they think it should be after getting advice from so called expert. They had never listen to majority voice down below.

At some point, I do agreed that social media/network need to be controlled or at least there are borders to some extend. However, to go deep until everything being controlled, then the meaning of "internet for everyone" and "open discussion" or "open world" or what ever term called for freedom of internet are no longer applicable. There are always ways to prevent such things without enforcing too much and to detail. You can put many preventive mechanism but the more you put, the more it build interest within people to explore and they start to learn on hacking and search for ways to get through.

Therefore, people up there and politicians, please do go down below and get the best solutions..