Something fishy about the DoT ban

Submitted by varun on Thu, 20/07/2006 - 1:40am.

The order to blacklist certain sites, issued by DoT to all ISPs in India is now old news. I don't have anything original to add to the issue... everything that should be said has been said.

I was in Chennai for a couple of days on an official trip and did not know something like this was happening... the first inkling I got of something of both sad and funny was when waiting to board the plane at Chennai.

Needless to say the Government or CERT-IN or DoT or whichever body has initiated this is totally inept and clueless about blogs and the Internet. It scares me to think that these are the morons with powers to influence the Internet and take policy decisions about it in India. Funnily even the so called technology correspondents who wrote about this on various news sites seemed ignorant about the terminology and the technology behind blogs.

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