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Originally posted by shankaracharya

1.CD access banned in a Mississauga library.
2.Nigerian Spammers on CD.

What is the world coming to?.

Devuda, Devuda Ezhumalai Devuda !

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Just as an interesting observation did you conclude point 1 above from the following post?

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There is a library in an area highly populated by South Asians and from which area 3 of the MPs are South Asians( I am sure that many of you know which area I am referring to) that has banned access to a site due to its "controversial content". It seems that content from that site led to an altercation between two individuals of the same subcontinent but from 2 different religious backgrounds and finally developed into fisticuffs. It seems that police had to be called in as well.

A South Asian lady working in the library told me how pathetic it was to see that when immigrants from "our home" come to a new country they still bring with them their age old differences instead of getting a fresh start here. She herself said "we have no right to complain about discrimination if we have it back home".

Just thought I'd put that here. Bigotry is alive and well all over the world.

I am sure it exists in Rumania, Lebanon, China...wherever.

Here's another reason I thought I'd put that story here .Anybody wants to guess what site it is that has been denied access? Here's a hint - it has over 20,000 members, almost reaching 25,000.
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There is no mention of CD being inaccessible from a Mississauga library, just that a site that shares one particular trait with CD is not accessible from a library in an area from which there are 3 South Asian MPs.

Chinese whispers? (Sorry, we'll use the more politically correct term and use "cocktail whispers" instead- perhaps we should coin the phrase "CD whispers" )

If not, then I stand corrected and take back what I said. If it is so-I think it's a pretty interesting observation on how things get twisted (no connotration of "in a bad way".

Shankaracharya, please do not misread this to think I am knocking you down. Could happen to anybody. Probably has happened to me as well, so take it at its face value of an interesting observation on 'CD whispers' .

I should also mention here that though I used the term "banned",if
I am not mistaken the official version was "rendered inaccessible" or something to that effect, the word 'banned' was not used by the librarian, but then that's another case of 'cocktail whispers'

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Originally posted by BlueLobster

I don't buy it. That's why I didn't respond to the library thing.

If anybody knows of the location of a library that has banned CD, let me know. We can definately write the librarian a letter demanding an explanation.

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The libe thing- are you referring to my post on another thread?
What don't you 'buy'?
1. That the site is inaccessible from a libe in GTA?
2.The reason as to its inaccessiblity?

The first is apodictic, please read from another thread:
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The site is inaccessible ( as of the evening of June 26, between say 5.30 pm and 9 pm) from South Fletcher's libe at the corner of McLaughlin and Ray Lawson just a stone's throw away from Sheridan College.

When one plugs in the appropriate URL all that shows up is the first line i.e the logo and a couple of ads on immigration, the rest of the page is blank.

Just wanted to recheck before givng the location as the last time I checked was 2 weeks ago.
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You can double check by visiting the libe and trying to access the site.

Let us know the reason why as given to you by the librarian. I gave you the reason given to me though as explained elsewhere the word 'banned ' was not used- just a case of 'cocktail whispers'.

Yesterday I asked a few desis there who visit the site and they said they used to be able to visit it from that libe until a few months ago.

But then again it might be a waste of time and energy to look into it. It's entirely upto you.If you do decide to investigate, please double check the inaccessibility before firing off a letter. It would put your mind at ease.

You have specifically asked if anybody knows of a libe that has 'banned' the site to let you know the location, that is why I have given you the location of one such libe, but wish to reiterate again that the word 'banned' was not used . I am just telling you it is inaccessible from that libe.