The government is set to introduce a bill called the Information Technology Amendment Act, 2008. This act demands due diligence from any " intermediary " which is defined as " any entity which, on behalf of another, receives, stores or transmits any electronic record." Such a broad definition, naturally, includes all service providers including internet cafes and telecom companies. In a sinister move they have included bloggers in the catch all definition which means a blogger will be held responsible for any comment left on his blog site and may end up in jail. Any material which is " threatening, abusive, objectionable, defamatory, vulgar, racial " or any other that they can dream of will invite punishment. So who will decide what is " objectionable "? Some criminal politician or thieving, parasitic civil servant, of course. Dr Binayak Sen is serving a life term for the crime of " sedition " because he allegedly carried a letter from a Naxal leader in jail. The government released 5 dangerous Naxals in exchange for the release of a kidnapped IAS officer but, hey, what judge will dare send a politician or a civil servant to jail. This act is an attack on freedom of speech. The politicians have controlled the organised media by a combination of threats and hand outs. Journalists are given cheap land for houses, cheap drinks at army rates in their clubs and free seats on ministerial flights. Tehelka showed the big stick when taxpayer money was used to drive it out of business. Like vermin politicians and civil servants like the darkness. They hate the light of truth that bloggers bring. Libya has but one Qaddafi, India has hundreds. Eliminate the vermin.