India: Blocking content at the subdomain level to be possible soon
This is yesterday's news (Tuesday Dec 5,2006). The Economic Times reports that the Department of Telecommunications in India will be putting in place filters at all international bandwidth landing stations to ensure service providers' ability to block content deemed inappropriate without inconveniencing other sites on the same domain. By implementing this feature, they would avoid the embarrassing incident earlier this year when all blogs on Blogger and Typepad were shut out (including a previous incarnation of this blog) when service providers were instructed to only block specific sub-domains on those two services.Here is an extract from the ET article along with a link:Screening for dangerous blogs, sites- The Economic TimesErrant websites won’t be able to escape this net. The Centre is putting in place an advance screening system at the bandwidth landing stations to block individual websites and blogs perceived as threats to national security. The technology to be put in place at the eight landing stations — which bring international bandwidth into the country — will be capable of blocking websites at a sub-domain level, thus saving internet service providers (ISPs) from a sweeping shutdown.Technorati Tags: india, blocking inappropriate content, filters, blogs
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