Guest guest Posted July 21, 2006 Report Share Posted July 21, 2006 Outrage over India ban Thousands of internet users in India have flooded a government website calling for a ban to be lifted on a discussion group. is in a legal grey area, say experts The ban has resulted in the blocking of all discussion groups hosted by the internet giant in India, inconveniencing internet users across the country. ...... Censorship The order was issued by the Indian Government's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-IN) which holds the power to block internet sites deemed to be obscene or a national security threat. Under the IT Act, Indian ISPs are liable for all third party data and content. ...... Since Indian ISPs lack the technical expertise to block a sub-group, they have responded by blocking Kynhun's IP address, which makes no distinction between it and other discussion groups. Thousands of Indians have now flooded the CERT-IN's discussion board asking for the ban to be lifted. Full Article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3148288.stm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 21, 2006 Report Share Posted July 21, 2006 Here's an article (July 20th) which I think makes it clearer about what's blocked: http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?article_class=4&no=306375&rel_no=1 Major Bloghosts Blocked in India Indian bloggers unite in response to ban by government Suhit Anantula Published 2006-07-20 14:33 (KST) This week India has joined company with an elite club, as Ethan Zuckerman calls it. The elite club consists of India, Pakistan, China and Ethiopia. What do these countries have in common? It is impossible to access Blogspot, possibly the world's most famous bloghost, in any of them. The Indian government provided a directive to the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in India to block a handful of sites which host blogs including Blogspot, Typepad and Geocities. [....] Geocities and have different IP addresses. If just Geocities is blocked, then should be okay. mahahradanatha <mahahradanatha > wrote: Outrage over India ban [september, 2003] Thousands of internet users in India have flooded a government website calling for a ban to be lifted on a discussion group. is in a legal grey area, say experts The ban has resulted in the blocking of all discussion groups hosted by the internet giant in India, inconveniencing internet users across the country. ..... Censorship The order was issued by the Indian Government's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-IN) which holds the power to block internet sites deemed to be obscene or a national security threat. Under the IT Act, Indian ISPs are liable for all third party data and content. ..... Since Indian ISPs lack the technical expertise to block a sub-group, they have responded by blocking Kynhun's IP address, which makes no distinction between it and other discussion groups. Thousands of Indians have now flooded the CERT-IN's discussion board asking for the ban to be lifted. Full Article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3148288.stm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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