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Some relief for Indian Bloggers as DoT clarifies to ISPs

We finally have some good news for the Indian Bloggers as some sanity is expected to be introduced in the controversy, which saw major blogging networks including Blogger and TypePad being completely banned in India.

The Department of Telecom (DoT) has now instructed all the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the country to block only the specified website/web pages instructed in the original order.

The order further said that the ISPs operating in India should strictly comply with the order dated 13th July 2006 and provide unhindered access to Internet. They are only supposed to block the limited number of web pages and websites not the entire network of domains hosting some of these blogs.

They are also asking the ISPs to clarify why they should not take action against them for blocking harmless sites and causing a lot of troubles for the end user in the country.

Strangely, we are still unable to access blogs hosted on Google’s Blogger service even now. Our ISP is Airtel Broadband.