When you visit a blocked website in India, it gives you Error 404 – ‘Page Not Found’ – leading you to think that the site may be down. In China, the webpage would read ‘blocked’; in Saudi Arabia it would also give you an email ID where you can petition the government to unblock that site. In democratic India, it is chori chori, chupkay chupkay.
Shivam Vij at National Highway writes on India’s clandestine efforts at censoring the web. First published in Tehelka and recently slashdotted.
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