I heard about it via Google alert yesterday and now it has been confirmed, India has banned access to Blogspot, Typepad, Geocities and more than 15 other websites.
India has “joined the Internet Filtering Club of China, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Ethiopia.” I can’t say that I blame India bloggers for being angry at the way the ban was imposed.
The banned blogs are accessible by logging in through third party websites. This certainly sounds like internet censorship to me.
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5 responses so far ↓
Rosemary Esehagu
// Jul 19, 2006 at 7:14 pm
At a time like this, given the situation over there, people’s self-expression, particularly through writing, should not be so strictly cut off.
bill
// Jul 19, 2006 at 10:08 pm
I totally agree with Rosemary. This is just taking away more freedoms. But then again, they aren’t America so their government, as far as I know (I’m no expect for sure), doesn’t really give them the same freedoms as we have here.
ABlondeBlogger
// Jul 20, 2006 at 11:14 am
Wow, that’s so unfair! Every blogger out there should do an “India Sucks” post now!
David
// Jul 21, 2006 at 1:09 pm
ITS BACK, ITS BACK !!! THE DAMM BAN IS OVER !!!
there are tons like me in this whole country who are jubiliant over the fact taht we can see our blogs again..
Seriously, it was such a pain, but then, shit happens, i guess..
now that the clouds have cleared, if you browse through a lot of indian blogs, there are gng to be some strong comments about the entire thing..
cheers
D
Lord Matt
// Jul 25, 2006 at 3:00 am
It doesn’t work. Blocking a site by type does not work.
for just five US dollars one can grab a cheap php host and a copy of any one of about 30 different OpenSource packages and setup a blog. Add wiki’s, CMS and the like and there are hundreds of platforms to choose from.
It is however wrong. Ban a subject, sure but a method… no that’s out right wrong.
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