Be ready, J&K may ban facebook soon

Be ready, J&K may ban facebook soon
Yash Khajuria	2/8/2011 6:53:53 PM
JAMMU, Feb 8: once again on the name of security reasons the State Government is now going to block ‘Face book’ the most favorite communication tool of the citizens of Jammu and Kashmir. In a meeting chaired by chief minister Omar Abdullah, which was attended by senior police and intelligence officials. They discussed of the matter.  Security agencies in their report pointed out that facebook has became a medium of bad advertisement of the anti national and anti-social activists from last ten months.  Thing to worry about is that the chief minister Omar Abdullah has given his assurance to the proposal of the security agencies and after the assurance of the Central Government the ban will imposed in the state.  It is pretend to mention that the Short Massaging Service (SMS) was already banned by the authorities from middle of the last year in the state.  On the one hand on the issue of flag hoisting plan of the BJYM the Chief Minister has said that after a long disturbance now the peace is looking forward in valley and the flag hoisting plan can disturb the law and order once again in the valley that is the reason why they are not allowing them to do the same, and on the other hand this decision of the State government is revealing the reality of the grass root. It seems that the authorities have no plans to maintain the peace.  But there is no doubt that people of the state would be deprived of a valuable communication tool.  Vishal sharma a facebook user, on the issue said that does the solution lie in banning ‘social networking site’ which is being used by lakhs of people for sharing information or in improving intelligence.  Another user of facebook Ajay Singh said on the matter that “Recently I happened to go to out of the state and I used another SIM card there. When I got SMS from my friends across India I was amazed as if I was in some other part of the world. Seeing an SMS on my cell phone was like a dream.  I felt so sad about my state having so many restrictions. I felt as if we people of J&K are living in a cage with no democratic rights”.  The state traffic police have recently in a press conference announced that they will be available on the facebook and anybody can suggest or inform them regarding any traffic problem. if such prohibition on the social networking site come in existence then how could the above stated activities performed in the state.