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Super-AdminVIS Dwarka

Confessions



Question 1

Read Express Newsline (The IndianExpress) dated 13th May, 2013,

Page 1, Article entitled "Page on

Facebook defames DU Staff; dept -

files complaint"

Now, a similar page has been

opened on Facebook by an

unknown administrator (student)

by the name of VIS Confessions,

misusing technology and defamingstudents and teachers



About the article and my Views

After reading the article, I found out that the said page

"DSSW Confessions" posted defamatory content targeted

at specific teachers and students. Comments were made

on the ethnicity of the students and the personal life of the

teaching staff.

The content on the forum was alleged to be objectionable

and sexually explicit.

In my view, such incidents are a form of cyber bullying, and

the offenders should be punished appropriately. Even if

these posts were sent anonymously, the administrators

should have checked the content before posting it.

Posting on someone's origin (Ethnicity, Religion, etc) or

personal life of the teachers and staff is highlyobjectionable and such should never be encouraged.

My Views about the project:



First of all, I think, the page in question was meant to be

"VIS Dwarka Confessions" and not "VIS Confessions,”

because at the moment it is the only VIS page with any

considerable audience and posts.Now, I would like to say that I am a regular visitor of the

page, and to my experience, this page is nothing like the

infamous page "DSSW Confessions."

Contrary to what is being said in the question, the page is

not misusing technology and not defaming any students or

teachers.

There is hardly any content about the teachers or the staff,

and all content about the students is harmless and

unobjectionable. I have never seen a single post on the

page that has attempted to defame any student or teacher.

Yes, I sure have seen quite a lot of negative opinions on the

page, and although I personally don't like them, I don't

think there are by any means defamatory, derogatory,

racially discriminating like the posts on "DSSW

Confessions." (According to the Indian Express Article).

Besides, more than half of the times, I am not even to

make out, for whom a certain confession is, since the

administrators blank out the names in all the negative

opinions. And I don't think there must be any student in the

school who may have been depressed because of a post on

this page, unlike "DSSW Confessions" (According to theArticle)

a) Do you approve/disapprove of this action?

What would be your stand on the deed?



I disapprove posting of defamatory and/or racially

discriminating content publicly on Facebook as the "DSSW

Confessions" Page did (According to the Article).

However, I totally approve of the "VIS Dwarka Confessions"Page. None of the administrators there attempt to defame

or bully a student or teacher. In fact, even in most of the

negative opinions, administrators add a note, where they

often criticize the Confessors for finding someone's

problems and posting them publicly.

So my stand on the Deed would be that Confessions Pages

that launch personal attacks and are used to expresspersonal vendetta or defame people should not be

allowed/discouraged.

Although Confession Pages, like that of our school, which

only have harmless fun, give out advices, and have other

social features as well, shall be encouraged, as they unite

students of the school and often raise issues of societal

importance.

b) If you know the name of the administrator

(student) who has opened the page, what

role do you see for yourself in reporting to

the authorities?



It is a belief among the visitors of the said page (VIS

Dwarka Confessions) that only the administrators know

each other, and that even the administrators don't know

who have created the page, and who own it.For all we know, Ironman and Batman created this page.

Although, even If I knew who the administrators and/or

owners of the page were, I will keep it as a secret. The

administrators respect the privacy, confidentiality, and

secrecy of confessors and other students of the school, so

should we. Since, they are not committing any illegal or

wrongful act; I would not have any responsibility to reportthem to the authorities, even if I knew them.

c) What should the school authorities do in

order to stop the perpetrator?

Since, I have not seen any illegal or wrongful act being

committed on the page; I don't see the administrators and

owners as perpetrators.



However, if the administrators of this page ever attempt to

defame an individual intentionally, or put false accusations

on the school knowingly, the School authorities should file

an FIR with the local police. The police can then request Facebook for the IP Adress of

the Administrators which can then be tracked back to

Home Adresses of the erring Administrators with the help

of their ISPs. They can then be brought to justice!

d) Who would be responsible for the

consequence of the crime (juvenile

home/jail) if the administrator (student) is

booked under IT Act? I studied the ‘Information Technology Act 2008,' passed by

the Indian Parliament and found out that any offenses on

Social Networking sites are booked under Section 66A of

the Act.

Section 66A of the IT Act states that:



66A. Punishment for sending offensive messages

through communication service, etc.

Any person who sends, by means of a computer resource

or a communication device,—

(a) any information that is grossly offensive or has

menacing character; or

(b) any information which he knows to be false, but for the

purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience, danger,

obstruction, insult, injury, criminal intimidation, enmity,hatred or ill will, persistently by making use of such

computer resource or a communication device,

(c) any electronic mail or electronic mail message for the

purpose of causing annoyance or inconvenience or to

deceive or to mislead the addressee or recipient about the

origin of such messages,

shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which

may extend to three years and with fine.

Explanation.— For the purpose of this section, terms “electronic mail”

and “electronic mail message” means a message or information created

or transmitted or received on a computer, computer system, computerresource or communication device including attachments in text, images,

audio, video and any other electronic record, which may be transmitted

with the message.

A recent development, worth a mention, is a Ruling by

Supreme Court where any arrests made using Section 66A

of the IT Act, have to be first approved by Senior Police

Officials.



This ruling was passed as a result of public protests of

exploitation of the Section by politicians.

2 Girls from Maharashtra were arrested for allegedly

defaming Shiv Sena Supremo Bal Thackeray. However,since their posts were not found to be grossly offensive or

to be causing hatred, the Supreme Court termed the

arrests as wrongful, and the Superintendent of Police was

suspended for the same.

I personally have never seen any content on the page that

can be described as grossly offensive or of menacing

character.

I don't have any clue whether the administrators are aware

that some of the posted content is false, but any posts that

apparently caused annoyance, inconvenience, insult,

enmity, hatred or ill will, are immediately removed by the

administrators on request of a concerned person. Thus,

such cannot be termed as persistent, and are not illegal by

the law as well.

So, from the study of my IT Act and my experience on the

page in question, the Administrators and/or owner cannot

be legally punished as none of the acts done by them on

the page can be classified illegal.

However, if, ever in future, an admin of the page is booked

under IT Act and has to face consequences in form of

imprisonment in a juvenile home or jail, or any other

punishment for that matter, then it will be the mistake of

the admin himself/herself. If the Act isn't exploited, as ithas been previously, the Court of Law is to decide the



appropriate punishment for the offenders, and being a law-

respecting citizen of the country, I would be fine with the

decision.

The one, who does ill, shall have to pay for it as well!

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