How many sites did the govt want blocked?
18.
Was the govt right in this request?
N.O.
How many sites did ISPs block?
Hundreds of thousands.
Who’s to blame for our inconvenience?
ISPs.
Who’s to blame for censorship?
DoT, CERT-IN, the IT Act - the powers that be.
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This is RIDICULOUS
Yesterday, I sent a mail to CERT-IN (the sub-dept that is in charge of Internet Censorship under GOI) and this is the reply I got:
Your message cannot be delivered to the following recipients:
Recipient address: common@cert-in.org.in
Original address: info@cert-in.org.in
Reason: Over quota
Today I sent a mail to the Dept of Telecom (the dept that issued the order to ban certain sites) and this is the reply I got:
Your message cannot be delivered to the following recipients:
Recipient address: ddgir@ims-ms-daemon
Original address: ddgir@sancharnet.in
Reason: Over quota
Comment by Aditi — July 19, 2006 @ 1:39 pm
Seems like a lot of people are sending mails by Aditi’s report. And your reasoning is very clear to me Shivam.
Comment by Mridula — July 19, 2006 @ 4:38 pm
This is ridiculous. How can a govt censor information on the internet. Then whats the diff between a democratic indian govt and the chinese govt. They also block content and so do we.
So much for being the world’s largest democracy.
Comment by Eshwar — July 19, 2006 @ 10:16 pm
Seems to me that meaning of democracy has changed.
I am a new blogger, presently at this time blogspot is not working and I cannot resist to write. DoT and ISPs are useless, they dont know the technology and blindy blocking sites. But Why?
Comment by Raj Shrikant — July 19, 2006 @ 11:44 pm
It seems to me that the meaning of DEMOCRACY has changed.
I am a new blogger and at the present time blogspot is blocked, I cant resist to write: DoT and ISPs are useless, they dont know the advanced technology and blindly blocking sites. But why?
Comment by Raj Shrikant — July 19, 2006 @ 11:49 pm
This too, shall pass. Requires very basic surfing skills to byepass pretty much anything that anybody tries to do.
At the same time, be aware, nobody is anonymous on the Internet anymore.
Vee
Comment by V Malik — July 20, 2006 @ 12:19 am
Messages are trickling in that people can access blogspot domain on certain ISPs but others say they cannot. I for sure at 12.30 noon, cannot access .blogspot domain from Spectranet. My take on the entire issue? Well Shivam said it much better than I can ever say it.
Pingback by Travel Tales From India — July 20, 2006 @ 7:02 am
har dette skridt vakt en del vrede blandt Indiens op mod 40.000 bloggere, og blokaden vil da også blive hævet snart, som det fremgår af den ovenfor citerede artikel fra rediff.com. Rediffs journalist tager selv bladet fra munden på sin egen blog: How many sites did the govt want blocked? 18. Was the govt right in this request? N.O. How many sites did ISPs block? Hundreds of thousands. Whos to blame for our inconvenience? ISPs.
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[...] While following the groundswell of conversation that welled up among Indian bloggers (even a touching offer of help from Pakistan), something became frightfully clear: most of the people who were writing against censorship and for freedom believed in no such thing. I repeatedly came across messages that said “If the government wants to block a few websites, that’s alright, but blocking all of blogspot is terrible.” I have a name for these people, and it’s “free speech free riders“. [...]
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that welled up among Indian bloggers (even a touching offer of help from Pakistan), something became frightfully clear: most of the people who were writing against censorship and for freedom believed in no such thing. I repeatedly came across messages that said “If the government wants to block a few websites, that’s alright, but blocking all of blogspot is terrible.” I have a name for these people, and it’s “free speech free riders“.
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[...] My previous posts on this issue: The blame game So what’s the status of India’s blogspot blockade? Sleep with Princess Kimberly, and expose the left “Somebody must have blocked some sites. What is your problem?” [...]
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