It's official. Some are just too pathetic for this world.
Let me explain.
There is something called "The Harem." It's a team of volunteers who worked at a conference last year. I was their coordinator of sorts, and the place where we were working at was in a bit of a messy state, which resulted in my (absolutely gorgeous) boss telling me "Godaya, take your harem with you and clean that place up!" Thus, the Harem was born.
We're a closely knit extended family of sorts. There is an immense amount of love going round. Some of us met up during different circumstances, but when two of our "members" came down from UK and Dubai, we decided to have a meet up. And where else to plan such an event but on facebook?
So there I was, eagerly planning out the thing on facebook. Think I got carried away a bit, because I was my usual nutty self and listed it as an "Erotic Party." Big mistake. Huge!
I had four completely random people calling me up and asking for invitations for the thing, and one person sent me a request to be added to the event.
Am I being judgmental? Hell yeah! How sad can you be to go online, go to facebook, search for "Erotic Parties", call up their Admins and then ask for invitations? On a sadness scale of 1 to 10, that scores 15.
And the way I see it, things won't improve. The Nanny State has imposed new regulations to curb internet pornography usage, and this in my opinion is going to add to the frustration level that prevails. Whilst the neo-conservatives hail this move, I think it's just sad. Score? 18. This is not the first time we've seen culture police hitting Sri Lanka. I remember some organisation pasting posters at Kelaniya University telling people not to wear low slung jeans.
This reminds me of the time when I was in China for a conference end of last year. China has strict enforcements of the content users can access, and whilst porn is allowed, blogging is not. This was a major strike to a blogger like me, but then a Chinese friend of mine showed me the way: Proxies.
Sites like www.ninjaproxy.com allows people behind firewalls (schools, offices, countries with blocks) to access restricted content. Which means the users will be accessing the sites anyway. And think about it: One can get pornography via email. Does this mean email is going to be blocked too? According to the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission who is going to enforce this, one would need a pass code to access the restricted sites. Does this mean we would need a pass code to access our mail inboxes too?
I have a fundamental belief that what happens between consenting adults in their own private space is their prerogative. It might be a distanced way of looking at things, but it also looks at things from a personal standpoint.
Which seems to be a difficult thing for most people to do, because some simply can't mind their own business. |
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