Indian government blocks blogger

[ahmadazeem777]

Originally Posted by raka_21

Bloody hell!!
blogspot is unaccessible again.....

anyway use http://www.pkblogs.com/ for accessing blogspot blogs

WOW... Great work raka.... for such itelligence I think you should change your name to Cahcha Chowdhary

Thankx
Azeem

[raka_21]

Bloggers Against Censorship is an effort by the blogger community against the ban. You will get most of the info abt ban here. Below are the links:

http://censorship.wikia.com/wiki/Cat...nst_Censorship
http://censorship.wikia.com/wiki/Blo...nst_Censorship


IT Act 2000: Blocking of websites

THE GAZETTE OF INDIA
EXTRAORDINARY
Part II- Section 3, Sub-Section (i)
MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS AND INFRMATION TECHNOLOGY (Department of Information Technology)
ORDER
New Delhi, the 27th February, 2003


G.S.R.181(E) - In exercise of the provisions of Section 67 and Section 88 of the Information Technology Act, 2000 (21 of 2000), the Central Government, after consultation with the Cyber Regulations Advisory Committee, hereby prescribes the following procedure for blocking of websites:-


1. Computer Emergency Response Team - India (CERT-IND) shall be the single authority for issue of instructions in the context of blocking of websites. CERT-IND, after verifying the authenticity of the complaint and after satisfying that action of blocking of website is absolutely essential, shall instruct Department of Telecommunications (DOT) - (LR Cell) to block the website. DOT, under whose control the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are functioning will ensure the blocking of websites and inform CERT-IND accordingly.


2. CERT could be approached by the:
(i) Secretary, National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS).
(ii) Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India.
(iii) Foreign Secretary in the Department of External Affairs or a representative not below the rank of Joint Secretary.
(iv) Secretaries, Departments of Home Affairs of each of the States and of the Union Territories.
(v) Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Intelligence Bureau (IB), Director General of Police of all the States and such other enforcement agencies.
(vi) Secretaries of Heads of all the Information Technology Departments of all the States and Union Territories not below the rank of Joint Secretary of Central Government.
(vii) Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission or Minorities Commission or Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Tribes Commission or National Women Commission.
(viii) The directives of the Courts.
(ix) Any others as may be specified by the Government.


3. The CERT-IND is located at Electronics Niketan, 6, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi 110003.


[F.No. 7(1)/2003-EC]
S. LAKSHMINARAYANAN, Addl. Secy

The act clearly doesn't defines anything abt blockable site and also there's no information abt what if certain pages of the site are to be blocked...
Neither does it says how it decides that the ban is justified or not...

[Spiderman]

I can access blogspot w/o proxy servers i.e i can post on my blog..but strangely..i can't view it!

The problem is that instead of taking the trouble to block individual blogs they have taken the easy way out and blocked the root servers!

[ramitchopra]

just viewed my blog...
guess the ban has been lifted!

[princeparas]

Friends , Everything is fine now.

I launched My blog yesterday

[LongShot]

can't view blogspot blogs again...

phir shuroo ho gaya naatak...

[LongShot]

is it that these events are now ISP - specific....Coz day before yesterday I could acces the blogs using a bsnl connection...but now when I am using Tata, I can't....

[srikrishnan]

Originally Posted by LongShot

is it that these events are now ISP - specific....Coz day before yesterday I could acces the blogs using a bsnl connection...but now when I am using Tata, I can't....

yes.. they r ISP controlled..