Top all-time · #17253
Justice Katju
Personal blog · justicekatju.blogspot.inpoliticsphilosophy
Justice Katju's personal blog at justicekatju.blogspot.in covers politics and philosophy. Since 2012, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Letter to Maharashtra CM”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts by a former Supreme Court judge criticising arrests over online posts. One commenter cited a letter from the blog to say such arrests violate free speech.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Letter to Maharashtra CM2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-11-19
What Hacker News says?
At least in this case, a former Supreme Court judge thinks the arrests not only violate constitutionally guaranteed freedom of speech, but are "criminal" to boot ... and he's not arrested for posting his criticism on his blog. http://justicekatju.blogspot.in/2012/11/a-letter-to-maharash...
Comment linking /2012/11/a-letter-to-maharashtra-cm.html
on “In UK, Twitter, Facebook rants land some in jail”Submitted Letter to Maharashtra CM as a story · 54 points
HN discussionSubmitted Present Age as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ten ways of being foolish as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What is India? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion