Man Jailed For 3 Weeks Over Wrong IP Info Thanks, ISP! Thanks, Oppressive government! An Indian man was jailed for three weeks after his ISP handed over IP address information claiming he'd posted images to Orkut that insulted Chhatrapati Shivaji, a revered historical figure.

According to CNet , Indian authorities tracked down the IP address thanks to Google, then headed to Indian ISP Airtel, who handed over the wrong name. Lakshmana Kailash K., a 26-year-old techie, subsequently spent three weeks behind bars. CNET ties this into a broader picture by noting that a U.S. law is being proposed that would prohibit any U.S. Internet company from giving authorities in countries that restrict free speech info that "personally identifies a particular user...except for legitimate foreign law enforcement purposes as determined by the Department of Justice." That law, of course, is a response to Yahoo's "spineless" (in the words of That law, of course, is a response to Yahoo's(in the words of Congress ) cooperation with Chinese authorities in the jailing of political dissidents.







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join:2002-04-10 1 edit 2 recommendations jc10098 Member Isn't it Ironic We chide other countries for trampling the rights of it's citizens, yet we are more than amply guilty of the same thing. Does anyone not recall that legislation that Bush pushed (and was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court), that made Google and Yahoo hand over search results to the government? Bush claimed that people were looking at child pornography and so the government needed all search data to determine what people were accessing. Don't believe me, look this one up. Couple this with the fact of our grand old NSA wiretapping, the Patriot Act, Gitmo where we lock people up with no trial, and frankly, WE HAVE NO ROOM to talk. We're the pot calling the kettle black. Hard to shout that another country is violating people's Democratic Rights when we can't even respect our own citizens or follow the letter of the law here.