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Hey I know! IT is the backbone of our economy, so lets block a bunch of sites that programmers like. --The Indian Gov.

• jqm 12y ago
  Maybe it's partially incentive to develop domestic equivalents? Probably not, probably just stupidity, but then again...maybe. ("Never assign to stupidity what can be adequately explained by malice or greed" ... or something like that)
  • samspot 12y ago
    You got the stupidity/malice-greed quote entirely backwards :). You aren't supposed to attribute to malice anything that can be explained by stupidity.
    • jqm 12y ago
      Yes, I know what the original quote says. I'm not stupid:) I believe when big well funded parties do things that appear simply stupid, sometimes there is more at play than stupidity. Quite often it involves money.
• mavelikara 12y ago
  Isn't "backbone" hyperbole?