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The creative case of an IT minister

(An open letter to Mr Kapil Sibal) Dear Mr Sibal, Subject: Screening of content on social networking sites I have been thinking of writing to you ever since I read that article in the newspaper about your proposal of screening ALL content that is posted on social networking sites. But other things have kept me tied up. I was too busy networking online. I hope you will kindly forgive me for the delay. You may have been busy too. There are a lot many things that the government has to bother about. I hope this letter catches the attention of your trained eye after you have dealt with the worries of running a country. I have also been wondering all this while if you have ever tried to find your long-lost childhood friends on a social networking site... or tried to network with/subscribe/follow the lesser-accessible mortals. Mr Sibal, we netizens actually take pride in poking fun at our friends through random updates. And since we are not celebrities/netas/stars, the media does not turn