It appears India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has issued
a directive to Indian ISPs to block BlogSpot and TypePad, and several
ISPs have complied. LiveJournal is spared. I’ve been unable to access
BlogSpot since Friday — the connection times out.
There’s a new Bloggers Collective group for tracking updates. Shivam
Vij is currently working the phone with ISPs and government
departments and so far has confirmation that this blockage was not
ordered by CERT-IN, the only body authorised to issue orders to ISPs
under the IT Act 2003. The order came from DoT on Friday (CERT-IN is
required to route orders via DoT) and the list of sites being blocked
is not public. Shivam’s asked for the list but been told it is
“highly confidential”.
http://groups.google.com/group/BloggersCollective/browse_thread/
thread/9c009e64766d914a/58d3863c111c7629
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Kiran Jonnalagadda
http://www.pobox.com/~jace
