‘Blogger’ banned in India too
After China, Iran and Pakistan, India has also blocked Blogger (aka BlogSpot), Typepad and many other websites. Some other websites include HinduHumanRights.org and HinduUnity.org.
Collectively there were 17 websites banned in india by most ISPs effective from 1st July 2006. BBC News page contains links to some of the blogspot.com blogs that were blocked.
The country’s 153 internet service providers (ISP) have blocked 17 websites since last week on federal government orders.
Some of these sites belong to Google’s Blogspot, a leading international web log hosting service.
Indian bloggers say that the decision is an attack on freedom of speech.
A number of them have started filing petitions under the country’s new landmark freedom of information law which gives citizens the right to access information held by the government.
Bloggers say the ban has meant that people do not even have access to blogs like the one set up to help the relatives of the victims of the recent train bombings in Mumbai (Bombay).
Courtesy: BBC News
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