Finally, Facebook bowed down to some un-rational demands of Government of India (rather Kapil Sibal) and has started blocking Facebook accounts with various Hindi slangs but one interesting thing has come up recently due to Facebook ban. Thousands of real profiles have been deleted by Facebook carrying the surname Chutiya. They all belong to a small community in Assam called Chutia community (Pronounced as Sutiya).
Facebook blocked it because word is a commonly-used derogatory term in Hindi. They didn’t know that there is a community settled in Assam with the surname carrying that derogatory term. The students’ organization also decided to burn an effigy of the social networking site in the five upper Assam districts of Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, Sivasagar, Jorhat and Golaghat on Monday and demanded public apology from the social networking website for their action.
Lets see what Wikipedia has to say:
Sutiya Kingdom : The Chutiya kingdom (pronounced sutiya) was established by Birpal in 1187 in northeastern Assam, with the capital at Sadiya. The Sutiya are an indigenous ethnic group that speak a Tibeto-Burman language. According to tradition, Birpal at first became the chief of sixty families.
That is so stupid of Facebook as they banned without verifying details of profiles. I would like to add that Kapil Sibal, for his political interests is busy playing around with freedom of speech of citizens of India and Internet. First it was capping SMSes, now its Internet. This is unreasonable! Lets speak up against it!
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