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I can’t access blogspot, typepad and geocities from my airtel connections at home.
Update: Commentator Rajiv says that it’s probably because terrorist group SIMI was using blogs to communicate. As he says…the approach is quite illogical.
I’m sure that if the government co-opts bloggers such blogs could be sniffed out quite easily with our desi-bloggers. Some of them are quite amazing cyber-sleuths. But with this clumsy ban, the government will have to spend energy trying to bluff the Indian blogosphere which could be better utilized going after the real culprits.
Update 2:
A replay of 2003?…that was when the Govt of India (GOI) banned “yahoogroups” 3 years ago. What they had asked the ISPs then was to block one yahoogroup “kynhun”, but since you can’t block one single yahoogroup, the ISPs blocked all the yahoogroups !
From the Financial Express article Blogs, websites go blank:
ISPs are believed to have been asked to block sites like bloodspot.com, hinduhumanrights.org, hinduuni-ty.org and clickatell.com, besides frontline blogs like the Google-owned
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13 Comments
13/08/2006 at 14:06
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18/07/2006 at 21:15
Sorry for the wrong link above but since this has to do with the after effects of the bomb blasts, you may want to have a look at this:-
Stray thoughts
18/07/2006 at 20:56
God knows what the justification is to curb the freedom of the individual like this. Supposing a politician had a veted interest tommorow and resorts to this can it be allowed? One hopes the govt gives a plausable expplanation.
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