The international blogosphere has been up in arms this past week because the Indian government blocked for a period of time all personal blogs. The government said it was a technological error — it had intended to block only a few blogs with “impertinent pages” containing “extremely derogatory references to Islam.”
The blog sites in question, including blogspot and typepad, are apparently back up.
It really does seem as if a technological error occurred. The government issued a statement shortly following the blockade blaming the ISPs for the black-out.
“Because of a technological error, the Internet providers went beyond what was expected of them which in turn resulted in the unfortunate blocking of all blogs,” the official said.
While the seeming snafu has been rectified, it has spawned a lot of anger toward the government and at least one web-based watch-dog group, Bloggers Against Censorship, has been formed. The group says its effort “is aimed at nothing less than ensuring the Government will never again do something like this.”
Cynthia Brumfield at 11:01 AM|Comments(0)
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