july 17th, 2006
following arjun singh's ban, a number of internet sites have been shut down, including all blogger sites, most of which are run by individuals.
this, of course, is censorship. but the 'intelligentsia' in india are not worried. stands to reason, because a lot of the english-language media's hypocrisy is being exposed on blogs.
and it's interesting that they have given lists of sites with 'extreme religious views'. one of these is ' hinduhumanrights.org'.
thus, in the arjun singh lexicon, hindu human rights = religious extremism.
this goes well with arjun singh's other axiom, 'secularism' = mohammedanism. this was repeated by him and his arab friends on his recent trip to west asia.
note that the extremely predatory christist sites such as the joshua project have not been censored. nor mohammedan terrorist sites, even after the mumbai blasts. nor extreme marxist sites, even after yesterday's massacre of 87 tribal refugees in a camp in chattisgarh. the only site mentioned that has a christist connection is dalistan.org, a christist front.
thus, christist/mohammedan/marxist terrorism = good
hindus wanting their human rights = religious extremism.
a very neat encapsulation of UPA policy.
stand by for an announcement of the emergency, any day now.
here is a news report that gives the story, and here's a way to bypass the ban by using anonymous servers or proxies.
http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/Bypassing_The_Ban
this wikipedia entry shows you how to get around the ban.
also, here's another email about it: use the pakistani anti-censoring site!
Here's one great way to access all blogspot blogs: Just go to http://pkblogs.com/. This site was created by Pakistani bloggers to bypass all blogs that were blocked by the Paki govt.
newsreport:
http://www.indianexpress.com/story/8719.html
Post 7/11, Govt targets 'extreme' websites, bloggers on the blink
SULAKSHANA GUPTA / Pragya Singh
Posted online: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 at 0000 hrs Print Email
MUMBAI, NEW DELHI, JULY 17:The fast-growing community of online
bloggers has borne the brunt of the government's decision to block
some 20 websites in a post-Mumbai show of force. Some of the websites
that have been blocked are Dalitstan.org, Clickatell.com,
Hinduhumanrights.org and Hinduunity.com.
But the most harried Internet users were the bloggers, who couldn't
access Blogspot.com , Typepad.com or Geocities.com pages. Sources in
ISPs in Delhi as well as Mumbai confirmed that the one blog government
has asked them to block is Princesskimberly.blogspot.com.
It seems the order posed technical problems, resulting in a blanket
ban on all blogs. ''You cannot block a single page on blogspot.com,
which is why all of them are getting blocked,'' said Neha Viswanathan,
Regional Editor, South Asia, Globalvoicesonline.org from London.
The Indian order was issued on July 13, sources in the Ministry of
Telecom confirmed, though the Computer Emergency Response Team
(India), part of a global cyber-security network set up three years
ago, did not announce the bans officially.
Only sources in several ISPs such as Spectranet and Airtel confirmed
that they had received the site-blocking order. R Grewal, a
spokesperson for Spectranet confirmed: ''We received a list of over 20
websites to block from the Department of Telecom, and this
( Blogspot.com) was one of them.''
Apparently, all the websites blocked are said to express "extreme
religious views."
MTNL officials said they were handed a 22-page document detailing the
sites to block a month ago. "It came from the National Informatics
Centre (NIC). It was the first time that they had done something of
this nature,'' says RH Sharma, sub-divisional engineer for MTNL in
Delhi.
Government sources confirmed late in the evening that some websites
have been blocked based on police reports that they were fuelling
hatred. They denied that the Mumbai blasts had anything to do with
censorship and that security checks on the blocked sites were on since
before the terrorist attacks.
SULAKSHANAGUPTA@expressindia.com
8 comments:
One news the Assorted Seculars would desperately want to censor:-
CPM=Communist Party or Criminals Party?
The Spirit Mafia
10,500 litres of spirit was siezed from from the wife's house of M. Bhaskaran, party Alappuzha district committee member and Pathiyoor panchayat president, at Kariyilakulangara.
The Police Party Attacked. CI seriously Injured
S. Jayakumar, Excise Circle Inspector was seriously injured in an attack by an armed gang during a surprise raid on a secret spirit godown in Kariyilakulangara in Alappuzha district. The raid was on house by a local leader of the Democratic Youth Federation of India, Aji Kumar. He continues to be critical and continued to be on ventilator. The condition of three other officials who were attacked was improving.
Gaurav
http://jokesfromindianleft.blogspot.com/
The Indian mainstream media is almost completely controlled by vested political interests.
The Government of India is able to control it. It is able to get them to not ask the right questions, like: why has Shivraj Patil not resigned ? Why is he still the home Minister after so many large-scale terror attacks of increasing frequency ? (Varanasi, Srinagar, Mumbai, Nagpur, Ghatkopar, Delhi, and so on).
Why has Indian Government not been able to catch any of the people responsible for planning and executing any of the attacks in the past several years ?
Each time there is an attack, they arrest a few hundred poor slum-dwellers, and let them go after a couple of days.
They think Indians will keep forgetting, keep moving on. Accept the fact that no serious effort is being made to take action or to prevent future attacks.
If a Government is full of people so incompetent that in spite of serious efforts over several years they are unable to get any results, then why are they not resigning ? Why are these morons sitting in Government, wagging their tails, doing nothing ?
But, the Government is not able to control the bloggers, who are asking these uncomfortable questions, exposing the Government's all-round failure.
So our doddering old stupid leaders have decided to block out the bloggers altogether.
They will pay dearly for this mischief. India is not China.
What works in China will NOT work in India.
UPA is going down, along with its bungling idiotic spineless lame-duck Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the Casteist Divide and Rule Arjun Singh, the Doctors-Salary-thief Ambubani Ramadoss, the Bihar-Democracy-Killer Lallu Prasad, SIMI-backer Mulla Maulayam, and the remote-controller Bofors-thief Sonia Nehru.
Rajeev, in response to your comment at other post which said \"alas, i dont know how to convey this information to people in india who are affected, sigh.\"
--- You no longer have to sigh - a friendly TV channel called CNN-IBN (ever heard of it ?) aired an item called something like -- \"How Bloggers are beating the ban\", where they spoke to some annoyed bloggers. some of them said how the blocked sites can be accessed. So anyone who saw CNN-IBN at 9pm knows how to come here.
So here I am.
And I\'d like to say I am all for blocking sites than create and fuel hatred, for after all, the basic ingredient for terrorism is hatred, and more hatred will only fuel existing terrorism and extremism.
But certainly, banning a site like \"hinduhumanrights.org\" is a totalitarian and evil action.
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All,
This is not the only incident of its kind. This page can be reached through a link if you do a Wikipedia search for "AQ Khan" ... yes sir ...wikipedia .. now how obvious must things be before people start to think?
http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=1&story_id=22629
This combined with another wonderful episode from history. Remember how they allowed Paki Intelligence and army regulars to be airlifted out of an Afghani town before bombing it? (think it was Herat, though not sure .. remember Rajeev writing something about it).
Whose side is the US on anyways? the bottom line is it's our problem to deal with. and we should deal with it our way .... to change a Sean Connery phrase from the gangster movie of a while ago... "If they bleed you with a thousand cuts, you bleed them with a million"
How Stunningly Edifying
http://www.dailypioneer.com/indexn12.asp?main_variable=front%5Fpage&file_name=story1%2Etxt&counter_img=1
I was thinking of the status of women in Gujrat only yesterday. I am really so worried about those women. no I really was...I swear .. seriously !
Incidentally, dalitstan was banned a long time back. See the references to this here:
http://irffanclub.blogspot.com/2006/01/professors-witzel-and-farmer-post.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalitstan
Inside news about NDTV:
CPI-M’s FIrst lady general Brinda karat is sister of NDTV’s Pranay Roy’ wife Radika.
http://nomadmolouges.blogspot.com/
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