NIC, is now planning to impose a ban on the official website of Indian railway. It seems this site has provided a lot of information to the terrorists of Mumbai blast. And possibly the tickets were also bought through this site only. In the larger interest of the country, the decision was taken by the competent Govt. officials.

Further, Govt. is also planning to block a few other sites and news channels which are showing the plight of Blast victims or helping them in any other way. Govt. officials confirmed that these organisations are being banned as in a sense, they are also spreading the message of terror sent by the terrorists.

Further these ban-orders will be sent through email ( for the first time in the history of NIC ). An email-id, for the head of NIC, is already created with one of the free email service providers and will be used for the purpose. The officials are now trying to understand the functioning of emails. The mail is drafted already and it will be sent as soon as they will be able figure out the “send” button’s functionality. Hopefully it will take some time.

Further, though it is lifted from the blogspot, for some reasons, NIC decided to keep the ban on Geocities. They clarified that as per the information from security agencies, Geocities is the site hosted by the terrorists, regarding the cities where explosion has to be carried out.

Source : Digg

So, we can point our fingers away from the ISPs now and concentrate on the govt instead. Let’s turn our attention towards those 17 sites and geocities now.

But heh heh… they hvn’t blocked http://geocities.yahoo.com !!! so wht the use of banning??

BTW, thru this site also, anyone can access all the blocked blogs/sites: http://tools.superhit.in

Cheers!

Trust me even if I wanted to have an alternate pseudonym, it certainly wouldn’t be Jhantu…reminds me of a swear word we used back in school. I think you know what I mean. No offense meant to the poor anonymous soul here though

Come on, you might as well admit it.

Hitler was a blogger?! And I thought he just went around giving speeches. I really should have paid more attention in History.

Meher: It’s not the modern tools of communication that are the problem. If someone has something to say and there are people who want to listen, the message will get across – censoring it will only mean that it’ll be harder for you to find out.

“can the blog community come up with a few innovative ideas to deal with this in a more sensible manner than the government?”

Here’s one: Let everyone have their say. And if you don’t agree with them, click on that little button on the bottom that says comments and tell them so (as, btw, you just did). Or get a blog of your own and put up a post explaining why you disagree. And hope that the government doesn’t block your site before everyone has had the chance to read what you have to say.

Remember one thing in the name of free speech lots of people take advantage to propagate their hideous ideology let us not give rise to another Hitler or group of Hitlers who hijacked an entire continent by propaganda and spreading hatred using the modern tool of communication.

we are no better than the government if we just express our outrage and dont come up with solutions instead.

i am posting this at all blogs …. i am not a blogger my self but i like reading blogs and i wish this media is kept out of government censorship.

can the blog community come up with a few innovative ideas to deal with this in a more sensible manner than the government?

Agree again with Falstaff : we want more reforms and less taxes.

Errr…then join the group and be a member.