Ban on blogs
Something that I had feared the day I had started blogging. I was always afraid that the Indian Goverment might take such steps. The goverment had ordered the Indian ISPs to ban 12 blogspot blogs as they were into terrorism and stuff. But our Indian ISPs are too lazy to even do one thing right, they outrightly banned all the blogger blogs resulting in many of our Indian blogspot bloggers not able to post there and they issued and idiotic statement to defend themselves.
Officials defended the decision saying, “We would like those people to come forward who access these (the 12) radical websites and please explain to us what are they missing from their lives in the absence of these sites.”
Read that whole article here.
What were they thinking when they issued such a statement, they don’t even know that people are not able to access there own blogs. Who cares for the 12 sites now because of the goverment’s decision all the indian bloggers of blogspot are not able to view their blogs.
Technorati Tags: Bloggers, Indian Bloggers, India
July 19th, 2006 at 8:24 pm
I think it is the ignorance of the govt on blogging partly that is responsible for all this. They should get techno-savvy. Ways must be found out to block specific sites if already not there.
July 19th, 2006 at 9:28 pm
Geocites and Typepad too! I fear Wordpress is next, cause its next on the poular list.
July 19th, 2006 at 10:06 pm
If wordpress is banned first thing woulfd be is to send letter to the dear president explaining the great work of his goverment man we should mass mail then those mails will be noticed. MAn i always feared that our “Great” goverment will do this
July 19th, 2006 at 10:35 pm
Heard that the total ban is gonna be lifted in 48 hours.
July 20th, 2006 at 2:57 pm
well our ISPs didnt have the technology to ban single sites… thats wat GOI told!!
July 22nd, 2006 at 2:55 am
For the complete list of the 17 banned blogs, with links to the sites, visit Berkeley Bubble.
July 22nd, 2006 at 2:56 am
Sorry for the error–the complete list of banned blogs is here.
July 22nd, 2006 at 11:10 am
Good news , blogspot is back online.
July 25th, 2006 at 2:28 am
That was stupid. Glad everything is fixed now.
July 25th, 2006 at 6:47 pm
That was real stupid. In fact it was a block on the basic right of freedom for expression.
July 25th, 2006 at 7:57 pm
Well we live in India what better can you expect from the great goverment WE chose
July 26th, 2006 at 12:45 pm
Well, our choices are C and B, like Dumb and Dumber!
August 6th, 2006 at 5:41 pm
Even now when the ban is over, I am not able to access my blog sometimes , dont know the reason.
August 8th, 2006 at 1:50 pm
It was blocked in Dataone some 4 days back again for some ‘maintenence’ but it opened soon :]