India blocks Blogger, TypeAd and Geocities blogs and websites
18 Jul, 2006, 12:00 pm IST | by
Jayesh Mansukhani
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The Indian Government has issued an order to all Indian ISPs for a ban on various blogging sites. While no official release has been made on this front, the reasons being attributed to this ban range from it being a preventive measure to stop sleeper terrorist cells from accessing instructions contained in blogs, to a new measure to try and control the spread of information through blogs. The order was issued by Department of Telecommunications (DoT). The known list of blocked domains is *.blogspot.com, *.typepad.com and geocities.com/*.
It leads me to wonder if this is a case of ISPs overreacting, which would not be the first. Three years ago, they had rather zealously blocked groups.yahoo.com in a similar manner when all they wanted to actually do was to block a particular group. As of now most of the large ISPs have already complied with the DoT order and a large population of Indian bloggers has been cut off from their own blogs. Keep checking back here, as we will post more news on this story whenever available.
Here is a a list of Indian ISPs who have already complied with this order. Update: Rediff has carried a comprehensive story on this. It seems the first person to discover this block was Mridula Dwivedi, a teacher of management studies in Gurgaon, who first discovered that visiting any blogspot blog - such as, say Mumbai Help - returned the message 'Site Blocked!' The plot began to thicken when her ISP, Spectranet, confirmed they had blocked some sites based on government directives.
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Tags: Blogger , Blogspot , Blocked , TypeAd , Geocities , DoT , India , ISP
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