India Blocking Bloggers
Update : International bloggers have caught on to this news. Here’s a few links I’ve read so far:
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Interestingly caught a comment on Desi Pundit left by one of the readers…
Rohan Pinto
July 17th, 2006, 10:33 am | #This seems to be a over-adhered-to action on a directive to ban access to SIMI (Students Islamic Movement of India) and LeT (Lashkar-e-Toiba) run blogs, which is known to have played a role in the recent bomb blasts in Mumbai.
End of Updates.
Just caught this on Rediff.com. Also Labnol addresses this issue here (tip: Trasie).
Seems like India is officially blocking bloggers’ websites. Long live the democracy of India errr…. sorry… dictatorship in India.
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July 17th, 2006 at 10:20 am
Yeah man,Am finding it difficult to access the blogs on Blogspot like Vantage Point and Youthcurry:(
July 17th, 2006 at 11:54 am
expected.
July 17th, 2006 at 10:03 pm
damn…now i know why i could not access some blogspot blogs especially those that had words like immigration and emigration in them. crap!
July 18th, 2006 at 4:36 am
This is truly sick man.Feels like 1984 in here:-<