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The friendly FOE - Freedom of Expression

Like clockwork, FOE comes back in news every 2-3 months. It's not surprising it comes up this often in this age, where every second person is a blogger (ahem) expressing their views freely to be intercepted by hopefully one or 2 people if he/she is lucky or has any friends. Jokes apart, with millions of people active on social networks it is hard to say something stupid and get away with it. Internet always remembers, but tends to have a short attention span also.

A few days back, Tanmay Bhat from AIB made a snapchat video swapping Lata Mangeshkar and Sachin's face. The kind of thing 2 year olds find funny. But then apparently he said some uncool stuff. I haven't watched the video, neither do I intend to. Don't enjoy his kind of humour. Coming back to the video, people were obviously offended about the mockery of their idols. I hate Twitter on such days, everyone is outraging over the same thing (for or against). Just no escaping it.
I understand FOE comes bundled with FOEE, Freedom of Expressing Exasperation, why not use it wisely? In all likelihood, the video was meant to raise eyebrows, there's nothing like bad publicity. Tanmay ruled Twitter for 3 days. Heck his video was also on News Channels. NYT also featured an article on this drama. Sigh.
Mission accomplished Tanmay! Give yourself a lick pat on the back. 

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