[Fsf-friends] Indian governments blocking blogspot, geocities, and other sites.

[Anurag]

Sometime on Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 12:25:40AM +0530, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray said:
> Hi,
> 
> http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/06/07/17/1732209.shtml
> http://in.rediff.com/news/2006/jul/17blog.htm
> http://jace.seacrow.com/
> 
> Having gone through all the above sites, it seems that the dividing
> line between the Indian and Chinese governments has gone down by a
> level.


It seems like this news has been covered by the media as well. Times
and DNA have published columns on this in today's issue. From what i
read, it seems like a well intentioned policing which backfired. They
intended to block certain blogs but ISPs ended up blocking entire
blogger.com.

Anurag
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