Guest guest Posted October 23, 2003 Report Share Posted October 23, 2003 Banned tweak in through proxy servers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Wednesday October 22 2003 13:28 IST Extract From New Indian Express, hope this helps our hari bhakthas in India. KOCHI: It is one month after word went out that India has slapped a ban on the entire domain through its Department of Information Technology arm Indian Computer Emergency Response Team - CERT all for blocking a single extremist voice on a page called Kynhun. An act which brought along condemnation from civil rights and free media ideologues the world over. But what the heck, asks hacktivists and anti-censorship junkies - so long as you can access any ranging from that of your old school buddy to the ``terrorist'' Kynhun being accused of ``promoting anti-national news and containing material against the Government of India and the State Government of Meghalaya.'' users are finding it increasingly convenient to take the help of proxy servers that abound in the cyber space to bypass the blanket ban on the . There are thousands of sites related to and/or based in India - if you do search on groups with the term India, it springs up a figure of 12,500. Apart from professionals, study groups and organisations, groups is a cyber sub-culture used by school and college alumnis to stay close and exchange ideas irrespective of geographic boundaries Websites that have hosted proxy servers that ``virtually'' take the wind out of the ban include one by Citizen Lab, an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada, focusing on advanced research and development at the intersection of digital media and world civic politics. Internet users in India will be able to access once they reach the sub-domain www.india.citizenlab.org., www.india.indimedia.org, the Indian edition of Indymedia, a collective of independent media ogranizations' journalists, gives more than a few tips and links on how to bypass the censorship. For technofiles there is the site www.antiproxy.org which aims at a censorship-free internet. The site provides all information and solutions available to bypass proxy restrictions, and give you full access to all the resources found on the net. ``This is one reason why there shouldn't be censorship in net. Internet is a free media where everyone can express their ideas. For every restriction or filtering, there are technical work-arounds available,'' says Amithabh Premraj, a Senior Software Engineer with IBS, Technopark, Thiruvananthapuram. One has to glance around the Kynhun webpage to know what the ban has done to it. The forum run by a separatist group called Hynniewtrep International Liberation Council which had about 40 members before the ban now boasts of 226 members. Posted messages that trickled in twos and threes every month since it went online in August 2002 now stands at 26 in the month of October alone. It has congratulatory messages from a group calling themselves Goan nationalist and another from a Catalan freedom fighter in Barcelona not to mention posts by curious cyber tourists. The Government had designated CERT as the authority for blocking of websites through a notification July this year. The Government issued orders to ISPs to block the groups. domain using the provisions of the IT Act 2000 - in a first such move, after refused to comply with the request asking it to take off the Kynhun page. The IT Act 2000 has provisions to block sites if they promote pornography, slander, racism, gambling, terrorism or violence, which cannot be challenged under laws governing freedom of expression. It is not for the first time that the Indian Government has tried to block web sites. During the Kargil war of 1999, the web site of the prominent Pakistan daily Dawn was blocked. , " Meera Tadipatri " <mtadipatri@h...> wrote: > On Monday, October 13, 2003 " Anand Rao Manvi " <m_anand_rao> > wrote: > > > Looks like is blocked by GoI. > > From what I understand[from a 'mitra'], Indian ISP's have been > ordered to disallow archives message browsing. > > > Is any one else in India facing this problem or not? > > My friend is facing the same problem. > > Regards, > > Meera Tadipatri > > > Anand Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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