Tuli

With internet access comes great power. And just like any form of power, in the hands of those unfit to possess it, it can be abused and misused.

This week, there was some madness in the world of chuvaness, that highly entertaining/awesome blog site, after she “exposed” a controversial “practice” done by medical practitioners and students. She found some photos of medical students smiling and posing during an Operation Tuli with the kids who were getting circumcised as backgrounds up on some social networking site. For her, it was just wrong for these people who are supposedly acting out of benevolence and who will be future professionals to be taking such photos and making them public. A lot of readers commented on her post. Most agreed with her and were shocked by how the children were openly violated. And there were those who disagreed. She next posted that she was wrong after all because such practice was apparently “normal” (of course she was just being sarcastic) because you can just google “operation tuli” and you will find photos in a lot of sites. Then, one of the persons involved in the photos begged her to take the blog entry down, or at least the photos, as it “recked their world overnight.” She felt bad so she agreed on the condition that they should issue a public apology. And they did (it was more of a letter to defend their acts, but anyway).

On the other end of the spectrum, internet power can be used to address issues that affect the public and achieve quick results. Use that power to fix what the law cannot take in hand. Go chuvaness :p

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