Harmless banning

By now I am sure everybody knows the story of Indian government banning a few websites on the grounds of bad graphics, annoying animated GIFs and unbalanced HTML tags. (After visiting the sites I couldn't think of any other reason).

Apparently some bozo in Indian government defended the decision to block (via aditi). Hindustan times reports:

Officials defended the decision saying, "We would like those people to come forward who access these (the 12) radical websites and please explain to us what are they missing from their lives in the absence of these sites."

The following are the statements I hope I won't hear from the Indian government in the future:

• "Yes, we shot all the beggars on the streets. Please explain to us what you miss in their absence"
• "We understand that by lifting all environmental restrictions on all factories owned by ministers, we are posing a threat to the environment. But you won't feel these effects in your life time. So we like people to explain why they are concerned."
• "We are banning newspapers from publishing any items of politicians or government officials shooting themselves in the foot."
  
• "Yes, we made it official that the cops can beat up any suspected criminal at will. If you are not a criminal, why are you worried?"
• "We will shoot anybody who compares India to communist countries"
  
• "We are banning any scenes in movies that show two flowers touching head on. We realized that movies are using such scenes to represent inappropriate contact between a male and female. Please tell us how your movie-going experience will be dilated in their absence"
• "We banned extra marital affairs. We asked people who miss such affairs to come forward and explain to us why. Not one person stepped forward so far.
  
• "Yes, according to the new law, people on life-support systems in government hospitals must sign a consent form. We issued an emergency order to cut oxygen supply to all such patients immediately. We will circulate the form next week. So what's your problem?"