Thoughts of A Lively Mind

The Department of Telecom (DoT) has instructed all the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the country to block only the specified website/webpages on the parent website. The DoT, in its letter issued to all the ISPs has mentioned that it had come to notice that in some cases the parent website had been blocked in contravention to what was stated in its earlier order dated 13th July 2006 whereby it ordered the ISPs to block certain websites/webpages.

As such the DoT has now directed all the ISPs to strictly comply with the order dated 13th July 2006 and provide unhindered access to Internet except for the websites/webpages which have been specifically mentioned in its orders issued from time to time.

The DoT has further sought explanation from the erring ISPs as to why action be not taken against them for blocking unintended websites/webpages.

RM/AMA- 200706 Webpages blocking

As always, catch up with the latest that's going on with reference to the blanket blocking of blogs on blogspot & typepad at:
Bloggers Collective
Updates when specific ISPs lift the block

Here's to hoping (and some action on my and other bloggers' part) that the initiatives setup through the Google Group (Bloggers Collective) continues - we wait out the various Right To Information applications filed, the possible Public Interest Litigation in the Indian Supreme Court and of course the continuing fight against random censorship exhibited by the Government of India and the various Indian ISPs.

As many bloggers in India have said, a resounding thank you to Indian ISPs for exposing their ineptitude by simply blocking traffic from the IP addresses in question - without that, we would have never even noticed the censor action.

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