Just last week we heard a brilliant idea about one fabulous usage of camera phones. According to IGP Jayantha Wickramaratne you can use it to video if somebody rapes you, so that video can be used as evidence at a court. Excellent! Judges and lawyers will get to watch blue films free of charge. Why should we object?
Now there is another group of monkeys who think that mobile phones are too dangerous to be used by public without their close supervision. So what they want us to do? Among many things, all of us mobile users will now be required to an ownership certificate. So that the policemen who check you know the phone belongs to you, not to the husband of your mistress. They might also be under the impression that would be suicide bombers always carry other’s phones, not their own. Wishful thinking.
There is a real ugly side to these regulations. Not having a certificate for a mobile phone can be an excuse for Police to arrest an individual. We all know the possible consequences. A cynic might say these are inevitable characteristics of a military state – like the Jews wearing ‘Star of David’ under Hitler’s Nazi regime.
Jews wearing the star of David during the Nazi regime
The new regulations by TRC also prohibits mobile phone sharing. This is funny. Most poor people in this country do not own phones of their own. Instead they share the phone of a friend or a family member. Most people on this country also do not purchase their phones. This can be seen especially among women and children. Most of the times a woman gets a phone as a present by husband or boy friend. Parents purchase mobile phones for their children. This is how our society works. The traditions and norms of a society cannot be changed overnight just because some monkey sitting in a Colombo office wants.
The new regulations prevent these commonly accepted practices of the society. The monkeys have made even presenting a mobile phone to your wife/husband/girl friend/boy friend illegal. You both can be arrested and jailed if your wife uses your mobile phone. My Gosh. Can anybody be this stupid? Does every government official need to demonstrate the same IQ level of their big boss?
Many countries in the developing world impose press censorship – either directly or indirectly. Some have rules for it and some pass the message by an ad hoc abduction and beating of a journalist. Some countries also impose censorship on Internet content. At last three countries (Thailand, Indonesia and Pakistan) recently banned You Tube.
However no country thinks it is necessary to restrict mobile phone usage, most probably because they are not that stupid. After all, all the dictators are not monkeys. There are intelligent dictators in the world, unlike our jokers.
Technology is a serious matter. It should be controlled by intelligent human beings, not a set of monkeys. Baboons are not allowed to operator computers and chimps cannot be pilots. When monkeys start controlling technology the outcome could be dangerous.
