Word has been spreading all day today that the Indian government has blocked a large number of blog sites. Both Dina Mehta as well as Xeni Jardin at Boing Boing commented across my radar screen.
I could be wrong. But my guess is that the ISPs were asked to do something they couldn’t, by a group of overzealous whoevers, and they resorted to the sledgehammer as the only way to comply. I’m going with inadvertent sledgehammer until and unless I am rudely awakened to a different reality.
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3 responses so far ↓
1 V Ramaswamy // Jul 18, 2006 at 6:25 am
Hi JP, I came to your site to tell you about the Indian govt’s blocking of blogs, and found you have reported it. It is a a knee-jerk over-reaction, but dud-heads; sad, that a lot of Indian governance is like that. You could see the links below for more information.
http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/2006-July/007735.html
and
http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/2006-July/007737.html
This is alarming. People in India have started telling me my blogspot site is inaccessible from their ISPs. I still have access, but its like counting the minutes to find access denied. I simply took for granted this empowering technology, assumed one had it, and was incredulous about this. But it seems reality check has kicked me between the teeth quickly!
2 V Ramaswamy // Jul 18, 2006 at 6:53 am
Hi, I could’nt access typepad blogs. The latest info on this blog ban by anti-censorship blogger activists is at:
http://censorship.wikia.com/wiki/Bloggers_Against_Censorship
chutki/rama
3 V Ramaswamy // Jul 18, 2006 at 2:23 pm
Hi, my ISP (BSNL) seems to have blocked blogspot this afternoon, so I just accessed my blog using a bypass, http://www.pkblogs.com. I’ve also received more information, from
http://censorship.wikia.com/wiki/Bloggers_Against_Censorship
and http://writersagainstterrorism.blogspot.com.
chutki
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