Indian government blocking access to Blogger Blogs?

Broadband News July 18th, 2006

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Indian government blocking access to Blogger Blogs?

We heard about it on the Indian Broadband Forum first. Now, the news is more widespread and almost confirmed.

Looks like the Indian government is indeed instructing ISPs to block certain blogging networks and that includes the very popular Blogger.

As per incoming information, The Department of Telecommunications has sent a notice to ISPs operating in the country to block around 17-18 websites on the internet.

Such kinds of steps are only taken when the government finds objectionable, anti-national content on the websites, which are blocked from access locally.

Analysts believe that the government is aiming to block these free blogging services to stop the interactions between militant groups in the country. However, this is not a good way to go ahead with it considering there are unlimited avenues present on the net, which can be used to sharing and transferring information.

Blocking access to millions and millions of harmless blogs on the BlogSpot network is really not something a democratic country like India should be doing. It makes us sound like our neighboring countries where censorship is the way to go when it comes to the web.

4 Comments to “Indian government blocking access to Blogger Blogs?”

nagu | July 18th, 2006 at 06:15 am

who said there is democratic govt in india. Democracy is only in the label. What is happening is aristocratic rule. If you have money and have some muscle power u ll be there up in the chair writing my nations law. the recent office of profit issue says how the rules can be made for the ruling clas people. there is a very high growing unrest in the nation.
as | July 18th, 2006 at 08:35 am

For sites blocked by domain names

* Using google translate, e.g., if the blog is “blogyouwanttoread.blogspot.com”, then use

http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&…
nagu | July 18th, 2006 at 04:45 pm

who said there is democratic govt in india. Democracy is only in the label. What is happening is aristocratic rule. If you have money and have some muscle power u ll be there up in the chair writing my nations law. the recent office of profit issue says how the rules can be made for the ruling clas people. there is a very high growing unrest in the nation.
as | July 18th, 2006 at 07:05 pm

For sites blocked by domain names

* Using google translate, e.g., if the blog is “blogyouwanttoread.blogspot.com”, then use

http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=blogyouwanttoread.blogspot.com