India censors web again
what do India, Pakistan, China and Ethiopia have in common?
It’s not a love of cricket. Or even clandestine nuclear programs.
They are all – apparently – blocking blogspot.com.
India is the newcomer to this party, and it is unclear just what blogs are being blocked, whether all ISPs are complying, and whether all blogspot blogs will be blocked or just a subset of sites.
India is again playing with censorship on web just after china. The Department of Telecommunications passed an order to ISPs Friday to block several websites. The list is confidential. ISPs have been slowly coming into compliance. blogs & sites hosted on Blogger , Typepad & Geocities are not accessible now. The List of ISP’s that Blocked Blogger is here. Bloggers collective initiated protest by Bloggers. A new wiki is setup against censorship
Shivam Vij managed to talk to Dr Gulshan Rai, director of CERT-IN, the only body authorised to issue a blocking directive. His response: “Somebody must have asked for some sites to be blocked. What is your problem?”.
