Indian Blog Blackout!!

The blogger community's Freedom of speech just croaked, it maybe a temporary thing, but hasnt the govt. got better things to do than blocking blogsites?!!?


This is a very stupid thing to do.. kills the spirit of bloggin.How can they forget that blogs came to the rescue when the phone lines were jammed??!!?
WE, bloggers are very much a part of India and would never do anything to harm the integrity or dignity of our country. Freedom of speech cannot be denied, nor the right to information , as to why were these blogs/blog sites banned.There are various sites like orkut which have disgraceful communities, What will the govt. do about them??

links to some articles reporting or blogs supporting the above...

http://in.rediff.com/news/2006/jul/17blog.htm

http://mutiny.wordpress.com/2006/07/17/blog-blackout/


PS:
DoT had only directed the ISPs to block out specific sites and blogs. You can download or view a scanned copy of the original circular sent out by the DoT from here.

Millions of Indian bloggers have been locked out of their sites just because the damned ISP were to lazy to block specific sites and just set up broad filters blocking out practically all major blogging services.

Here’s a list of offending ISPs -

TATA Indicom
Spectranet
Reliance Powersurfer
Airtel
Sify
BSNL DataOne
Exatt
Primus
In2cable
Iqara
Pacenet
Hathway
BSNL Dialup
Asianet
STPI
Reliance NetConnect
Reliance BroadNet
iNet

There may be more, but these are the real big ones

Now they jus say it was a "technical error", Woa... 10 blogs to 3 whole sites... so much for their stupid excuses!!