And government orders can range from the super-urgent to arbitrary to sometimes ill-conceived. Very often, its ‘one ban fits all’ makes little allowance for differences between social networking sites and regular websites.
Executives in telecom companies recounted the instance when the government on August 18 ordered a ban on bulk SMSes and restricted text messages to five per day as part of efforts to combat the large-scale migration of people of north-eastern origins from other states to their home provinces fearing reprisal attacks.
