Blog-Ban?
There has been a barrage of emails being sent back and forth since late evening from all over India over the supposed banning of blogspot.com and other related blogging sites by Indian ISPs. Is the government beginning to play dirty and curb freedom of expression? Or is this something to do with the recent bombings in Mumbai? Stay tuned as the investigation continues..
List of ISPs that have blocked blospot.com
Update : Airtel customer service confirms site blockage saying that there has been a TRAI directive this morning to block online blogging forums.
Update : Indian Govt. has instructed ISPs to ‘control’ access to blogspot. It seems that some blogs are being used by some terror units (read SIMI) to communicate.There is a crack down in place. IP numbers are being physically located and identified. All should come back to normal once this operation is over. (via mutiny.in)
Update : Are ISPs blocking blogs? - rediff.com does some digging.
Update : Slashdot picks the story on the censorship and so does Boing Boing.
Update : Feed readers like Bloglines and Newshutch can still be used to extract feeds from the blocked sites. Another alternative is to use the pkblogs.com an alternate blog gateway for blogspot.com sites. (via India Uncut)
Update : Several leading dailies including The Economic Times, The Financial Express and The Indian Express have reported on the ban. (via Dina Mehta)
July 17th, 2006 at 1:13 pm
[...] Update: Via Adel via Mutiny.in “Indian Govt. has instructed ISPs to ‘control’ access to blogspot. It seems that some blogs are being used by some terror units (read SIMI) to communicate.There is a crack down in place. IP numbers are being physically located and identified. All should come back to normal once this operation is over. ” [...]
July 22nd, 2006 at 2:50 pm
The long dawn of Indian internet activism…
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July 23rd, 2006 at 1:15 am
[...] Jace summarises the indian internet censorship issue And so a week has passed. We kicked up a ruckus, got mainstream media to back our case, appealed on television, made various government babus look like idiots, rattled their departments, extracted their precious document, made it public, set them off on a blame game, and finally, got the ISPs to restore access to our blogs. [...]
September 27th, 2006 at 11:06 pm
Hi,
Nice blog!
Why don’t you consider writing about some of the new “India 2.0†sites that are creating a little buzz as well?
Eg: http://www.ilaaka.com
http://www.onyomo.com
Thanks!
Rajeev