Comments on: Sri Lanka blocks TamilNet https://groundviews.org/2007/06/19/sri-lanka-blocks-tamilnet/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sri-lanka-blocks-tamilnet Journalism for Citizens Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:15:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.1 By: vasanthachandran https://groundviews.org/2007/06/19/sri-lanka-blocks-tamilnet/#comment-7764 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:15:56 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/2007/06/19/sri-lanka-blocks-tamilnet/#comment-7764 Government of Srilanka sacrificed (murdered) thousands of innocent Tamils who caught in the middle of the Fighting groups. They have decided that the Tamils are not their people. What else we can expect from them?. They have hided the massacre from the world view. After all they are blocking the Tamilnet web site.

]]> By: polnuts https://groundviews.org/2007/06/19/sri-lanka-blocks-tamilnet/#comment-6145 Wed, 20 May 2009 02:27:38 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/2007/06/19/sri-lanka-blocks-tamilnet/#comment-6145 so whats next for the ltte and tamilnet after its leadership is decimated ????

]]> By: Website of Tamil political party in Sri Lanka under investigation « ICT for Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace) https://groundviews.org/2007/06/19/sri-lanka-blocks-tamilnet/#comment-179 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 11:25:13 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/2007/06/19/sri-lanka-blocks-tamilnet/#comment-179 […] Of course, it’s interesting that the case has been made to the Attorney General’s Department at all since the Government has blocked access to the popular Tamil news website Tamilnet from Sri Lanka for close upon a year now, has openly called for hackers to be employed against websites it find inconvenient and has arrested journalists behind other critical websites.  […]

]]> By: Ruwan https://groundviews.org/2007/06/19/sri-lanka-blocks-tamilnet/#comment-178 Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:56:28 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/2007/06/19/sri-lanka-blocks-tamilnet/#comment-178 Could you expect media freedom to publish anything you feel correct in a country where there is a civil war? Just look how Musharaff has controled it in Pakistan.

]]> By: Melvin Ally https://groundviews.org/2007/06/19/sri-lanka-blocks-tamilnet/#comment-177 Mon, 25 Jun 2007 08:15:26 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/2007/06/19/sri-lanka-blocks-tamilnet/#comment-177 Really S, do you really expect anyone to believe that Tamilnet is an ‘independent media website’ and not connected to the LTTE?

Please…

]]> By: S https://groundviews.org/2007/06/19/sri-lanka-blocks-tamilnet/#comment-176 Sun, 24 Jun 2007 07:58:13 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/2007/06/19/sri-lanka-blocks-tamilnet/#comment-176 I don’t think this is the first time the govt. has tried to block Tamilnet, while I was in Sri Lanka in Decemeber, I couldn’t access the website for several days from several different computers. I spoke to a relatively informed person about it, and they said that there were attempts to block other websites too, such as TRO.

Also, I think it is a common misconception that everyone who has a pro-LTTE view IS the LTTE. From my research, Tamilnet isn’t funded directly by the LTTE (at least not at its creation), nor was it created by LTTE members. They have been critical to a tiny extent of the LTTE, I have heard of an incident where Tamilnet reporters have been sanctioned privately by the LTTE, but Tamilnet and the LTTE tend not admonish each other publically, as it is seen as weakening their position (and their entire cause) against the GoSL.

Personally, I don’t really blame the Tamilnet reporters for their huge bias. The NorthEast is dangerous, and even if you don’t want to, you have to take a side for your own protection or both sides will try and kill you.

]]> By: buddhika thambugala https://groundviews.org/2007/06/19/sri-lanka-blocks-tamilnet/#comment-175 Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:34:37 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/2007/06/19/sri-lanka-blocks-tamilnet/#comment-175 if government can’t tolerate tamilnet or any free media , then we can’t tolerate that government. [Editors note: deleted final sentence]

]]> By: Jayanta Wijeratne https://groundviews.org/2007/06/19/sri-lanka-blocks-tamilnet/#comment-174 Fri, 22 Jun 2007 07:10:45 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/2007/06/19/sri-lanka-blocks-tamilnet/#comment-174 Singam,I do agree with you….but it goes to show how scared THEY are that people will read another point of view….. especially about the war!!

]]> By: Singam https://groundviews.org/2007/06/19/sri-lanka-blocks-tamilnet/#comment-173 Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:06:27 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/2007/06/19/sri-lanka-blocks-tamilnet/#comment-173 In this day and age blocking one website is nonsense. groundviews, tamilcanadian , SL or LTTE peace secretariat websites or BBC can copy the tamilnet news and post. Sara is right that there is an intellectual backruptcy not to speak of paucity of IT knowledge in the SL Admin. I think Mahinda Aiya has lost control over his siblings and Ministers.

]]> By: Melvin Ally https://groundviews.org/2007/06/19/sri-lanka-blocks-tamilnet/#comment-172 Thu, 21 Jun 2007 03:53:15 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/2007/06/19/sri-lanka-blocks-tamilnet/#comment-172 If Tamilnet is banned, then the Daily News should be banned as well.

Free media and freedom of information are fundamental aspects of a democratic society but sadly not so in Sri Lanka. Obviously the govt. thinks that we cannot make up our own minds of what is right and what is wrong and what is biased and what is not.

They would rather they spoon-feed us with the muck that is in the Daily News, defence.lk, news.lk and army.lk – a bunch of rubbish and their stench is as bad as Tamilnet.

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