Not just China, blog sensorship happens in India as well..
Much as we Indians never miss an opportunity to crow about our freedom of speech, our government is no different from its Chinese counterparts, which is pilliorised the world over for internet sensorship.
God knows for what reason, The Indian Government has directed ISPs to block off access to certain blogs. The list of blogs apparently, runs into 22 pages. This has been confirmed by this Rediff story.
I can’t for a minute fathom what the hell, the Goverment of India finds objectionable in these blogs.
This has been confirmed by voices all over the Indian blogosphere. Here are a bunch of posts that are talking about this.
Will the Government restore sanity and explain the rationale behind this nonsense ?
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This govt is on dope …
No I don’t think so; I think the people in charge of this are plain simple incompetent; this is probably somebody who is blissfully ignorant about blogs, deciding that blogs are a threat to national security in light of the Mumbai bomb blasts…
I am totally confused by the decision of DoT. There are so many questions are arising in my minds.
What is the intention of Indian government behind the decision of blocking blog websites? Do they really want to serve the nation’s security or something else?
If our government wants to serving motherland by cutting off the way of communication of extremist groups, then how we can still accessing all those banned websites within a minute? If govt. is thinking that they have done a great job, it’s wrong. Fact is that, they are technically failed. Anti-social elements are still communicating through the same websites which are banned. If the banned bloggers want to reach Indians, they can easily come through another domain.
Then why ??????????
Please help me.
Amrita,
You are not alone in this despair. There are countless others who think like you.
Well, it is not only the Indian Government, but also International companies like Yahoo display different search results in Yahoo India and Yahoo International portals. In Yahoo India, one has to sign in to turn off safesearch filter in image search, whereas you can just turn it off in the Yahoo International version.
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