India: Meet the 'Internet Hindus'

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India: Meet the 'Internet Hindus'
Decried by more liberal Indians as anonymous trolls and serial abusers, Hindu nationalists and other right wingers are making a serious play to dominate social media.

Jason OverdorfJune 18, 2012 06:00



A protest poster against the Indian government's increasingly restrictive
regulation of the internet outside a shopping mall in Bangalore on June 9, 2012

NEW DELHI, India — “Internet Hindus are like swarms of bees,” Indian television anchor Sagarika Ghose tweeted in 2010. “They come swarming after you."
The "Internet Hindus" Ghose refers to — actually, she coined the term — are right-wing bloggers and tweeters who seem to follow her every move, pouncing on any mention of hot-button issues like Muslims or Pakistan.
Liberal journalists and netizens sympathized with Ghose's exasperation. But for right-wingers, it was like throwing gasoline on the fire. Since Ghose's tweet, Hindu nationalists and other conservatives opposed to the Congress Party of Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh have, if anything, multiplied and grown more organized — embracing Ghose's derogatory term and making it their own.

Today there are perhaps as many as 20,000 so-called “Internet Hindus,” many tweeting as often as 300 times a day, according to a rough estimate by one of the community's most active members.

“You will find thousands with similar sounding IDs [to mine],” a Twitter user who goes by the handle @Internet_hindus said in an anonymous chat interview. “Some [others] prefer to openly do it with their own personal IDs."

Freedom of speech

Internet Hindus, largely because of their numbers and influence, find themselves smack in the middle of India's censorship debate. There are signs the country's growing problem with controversial online content has already eroded legislators' commitment to free speech.

In April 2011, India added new rules to the 2000 Information Technology Act that required websites to remove content authorities deemed objectionable within 36 hours of being told do so. The amendment specifically targeted allegedly defamatory content and hate speech, but it was less than crystal clear how either could be identified reliably without an arduous trip through India's notoriously slow court system.

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دراصل انڈین ٹڈی دل ہیں اور سب کو معلوم ہے ٹڈی دل کیا کرتے ہیں، آج کل یہ لوگ پوری دنیا کے ساتھ کر رہے ہیں

انڈین پیپسی پی کر انٹرنیٹ پر مستی دکھاتے ہیں

Few of Them are always on Siasat.pk as Well....
Actually Pakistan and Muslims are like a Nightmare for them they are really scare of us that they can't even sleep at night properly, take any media site and where ever you see a Word Pakistan or Muslims these Pi-ss Drinkers flock to that site and infest it with their poisonous nonesense and always try to disguise....

no need worry from hindus KHUSARAN ARMY ke gadho ko bulao aur gazba hind kar dalo.


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baloch are set to get their freedom from punjabi army just like bangalis did in 1971 . when baloch patriots are struggling for their life and right to live ,mir jaffer is enjoying hospitality of enemies.

20,000 so-called “Internet Hindus,” bas? we have more than that :D tweeter/facebook combined u can easily get 40,000+ die hard ZAIDU BHAI FOLLOWERS.

[IndiaGuy]

Keep dreaming!! There are more insurgencies and seperatist movements in Bharat then any other country so the Naxalites, Khalistanis, Maoists and Kashmiris must also be set for freedom!

The vast majority of Balochis are pro-Pakistan and that's the way it will remain but i do see another 1947 coming your way.

Yes!!! they will keep dreaming.. just like Bangladeshi and finally they got the independence.You have dream to come true.

[Qureshi1975]

Yes, I agree that was in 1947, we moved on. Today, no one in India is furious over creation of Pakistan, in fact many are happy.


Your views in terms of the meaning of terrorism is important to us in relation to freedom struggle. @Unicorn we have to gauge your hate through his multipurpose meter

Dont give these kind of comment papu you might end up as ISI Agent and you wrote that indians are not furious about Pakistan with your fingers so now you need to pawitar you fingers in gao mata anus.

[TruPakistani]

India: Meet the 'Internet Hindus'
Decried by more liberal Indians as anonymous trolls and serial abusers, Hindu nationalists and other right wingers are making a serious play to dominate social media.

Jason OverdorfJune 18, 2012 06:00



A protest poster against the Indian government's increasingly restrictive
regulation of the internet outside a shopping mall in Bangalore on June 9, 2012

NEW DELHI, India — “Internet Hindus are like swarms of bees,” Indian television anchor Sagarika Ghose tweeted in 2010. “They come swarming after you."
The "Internet Hindus" Ghose refers to — actually, she coined the term — are right-wing bloggers and tweeters who seem to follow her every move, pouncing on any mention of hot-button issues like Muslims or Pakistan.
Liberal journalists and netizens sympathized with Ghose's exasperation. But for right-wingers, it was like throwing gasoline on the fire. Since Ghose's tweet, Hindu nationalists and other conservatives opposed to the Congress Party of Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh have, if anything, multiplied and grown more organized — embracing Ghose's derogatory term and making it their own.

Today there are perhaps as many as 20,000 so-called “Internet Hindus,” many tweeting as often as 300 times a day, according to a rough estimate by one of the community's most active members.

“You will find thousands with similar sounding IDs [to mine],” a Twitter user who goes by the handle @Internet_hindus said in an anonymous chat interview. “Some [others] prefer to openly do it with their own personal IDs."

Freedom of speech

Internet Hindus, largely because of their numbers and influence, find themselves smack in the middle of India's censorship debate. There are signs the country's growing problem with controversial online content has already eroded legislators' commitment to free speech.

In April 2011, India added new rules to the 2000 Information Technology Act that required websites to remove content authorities deemed objectionable within 36 hours of being told do so. The amendment specifically targeted allegedly defamatory content and hate speech, but it was less than crystal clear how either could be identified reliably without an arduous trip through India's notoriously slow court system.

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[Imranpak]

IndiaGuy;886910]Yes!!! they will keep dreaming.. just like Bangladeshi and finally they got the independence.You have dream to come true.

...and the Naxalites, Kashmiris, Maoists and all the other insurgencies have a perfect example of 1947 in how to break India! They're not dreaming anymore rather are hoisting Pakistani flags in Assam and Indian Occupied Kashmir, enjoy!! Balochis wouldn't spit on Bharat's flag, that is the difference that in Bharat that Pak flag is a symbol of liberation.
http://youtu.be/0oI-PjQkXx4
http://youtu.be/4_T_bTyuBZ8

[WatanDost]

"Cola" Drinkers
i.e. "Internet Hindus"

[dahashatkush]

"Cola" Drinkers
i.e. "Internet Hindus"

kya hua bhai ? aaj koi buri khabar nahi mili ? sirf add se to akhbar band ho jayega, -----------------------------------------------

[WatanDost]

@dahashatkush
Yaar pehlaY yeah to batao.
rehtay ENDIYA mai ho DANDA Bangladesh ka liya howa hai.
Maajra Kia Hai "KAHIN rani JODHA AKBAr WALA KISSA tow nahi hai Tumhara"

[Unicorn]

Yes, I agree that was in 1947, we moved on. Today, no one in India is furious over creation of Pakistan, in fact many are happy.


Your views in terms of the meaning of terrorism is important to us in relation to freedom struggle. @Unicorn we have to gauge your hate through his multipurpose meter

I am very upset about the partition. If there was no partition I would have at least dozen Muslim slaves and did not have to work. Now I have to work my but off

[Imranpak]

I am very upset about the partition. If there was no partition I would have at least dozen Muslim slaves and did not have to work. Now I have to work my but off

It's the Hindu's who were slaves of Muslim's for centuries. Your ancestors earned their living by cleaning the **** of Akber, Jahangir, Babur and Hamayun etc for a thousand years!!

We'll undo partition and and make you our slaves again because that's what you people have always been as shown in movies like Mughal-e-Azam where the Hindu's sat on the floor by the feet of the Muslim's. That is were you belong!

[dahashatkush]

@dahashatkush
Yaar pehlaY yeah to batao.
rehtay ENDIYA mai ho DANDA Bangladesh ka liya howa hai.
Maajra Kia Hai "KAHIN rani JODHA AKBAr WALA KISSA tow nahi hai Tumhara"

han ek dam wohi kissa hai , mother bangladeshi muslim father communist rajput both killed in 1971 by pakistani hijada khusra fauj in barisal . both serving doctors on uno medical programme. born in bangladesh .i am humanist neither hindu nor muslim.

[littlemaster]

han ek dam wohi kissa hai , mother bangladeshi muslim father communist rajput both killed in 1971 by pakistani hijada khusra fauj in barisal . both serving doctors on uno medical programme. born in bangladesh .i am humanist neither hindu nor muslim.

kam sa to dum DONKEY dikhta ho,,,,Humanist ka label laga ka.

[WatanDost]

han ek dam wohi kissa hai , mother bangladeshi muslim father communist rajput both killed in 1971 by pakistani hijada khusra fauj in barisal . both serving doctors on uno medical programme. born in bangladesh .i am humanist neither hindu nor muslim.

NICE Story. But You are A ENDIAN Liar. Thats it.

[barca]

no need worry from hindus KHUSARAN ARMY ke gadho ko bulao aur gazba hind kar dalo.


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moter kola bari hansi nikl rahi hai ? 2 botel zeada to nhi pi li

[dahashatkush]

moter kola bari hansi nikl rahi hai ? 2 botel zeada to nhi pi li

gadho ke liye tanker bhi hai tumhe chahiye ? free.

[dahashatkush]

NICE Story. But You are A ENDIAN Liar. Thats it.

kyo apni coward army ki kartoot pasand nahi aayi , order the hindus ko outright qatl and bangalis who did not belong to jamaat e islami turrant qatl. ye zaida kazzab ki banayi hui kahani nahi hai zo sakina ke naam ki sunaata hai , aur ullu ke patthe yakin karte hai.

kabhi justice hammoodurrahman commission ka naam suna hai ? use padho , tumhari sari bahaduri ghus jayegi.tumhare bahadur jawan 250 ghayal aur medical team ko bina bataye unhe desert kar ke apni jaan bachane dhaka bhaag gaye the surrender karne aur raste me unarmed civilians ko qatl karte gaye. just read commission report agar kuch sharm baqi hai.

[dahashatkush]

kam sa to dum DONKEY dikhta ho,,,,Humanist ka label laga ka.

don't worry donkey mian apart from humanist i also work for the rights of donkeys /animals . urdu writer krishn chander wrote a novel named ek gadha tibbat me . if you tell me your storey i will write your storey on the same pattern in urdu, english, hindi,bangla ,russian and german. title will be ek gadha pak sarzamine par.

[littlemaster]

don't worry donkey mian apart from humanist i also work for the rights of donkeys /animals . urdu writer krishn chander wrote a novel named ek gadha tibbat me . if you tell me your storey i will write your storey on the same pattern in urdu, english, hindi,bangla ,russian and german. title will be ek gadha pak sarzamine par.

its amazing how much you read about donkeys...why dont you check your DNA...you might might your family tree
wasa ghadon ka alawa bhi kuch per lia kero ,dunya maza ki haor inti language tumhain ati hain,,,,keya sub nationality ka ana jana laga raheta ha unab ka ghar main
@bakra

[barca]

gadho ke liye tanker bhi hai tumhe chahiye ? free.

yea tum logo ka kaam hai .subah dopahr shaam ...
mooter kola ..
acha yea to batao barf daal kar peetay ho ?

[littlemaster]

yea tum logo ka kaam hai .subah dopahr shaam ...
mooter kola ..
acha yea to batao barf daal kar peetay ho ?

nhain garma garma direct nalika (samgha kero yar) sa peeta hain.