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It's really strange to start writing a post which most wont be able to read. This is because Indian authorities have blocked all the blogspot blogs, in their so-called effort to curb some of the malicious blogs. They were supposed to block only some domains, but blocked entire blogspot.com. How can they do that. It's really ridiculous. The guys sitting in DoT should give an explanation.

But the Government people don't understand the gravity of situation. Many people in India still don't consider Internet as necessity. They just perceive it as a mean for sending Email and doing chatting. I remember one Reliance ad, which emphasised that net means only email. The person in the ad, when asked about Internet, replies- "I access my mails from office", as if to say that email is net. Sadly, that's the case with many, except for younger generation. Many people don't consider it as necessity and that it can be used for many purposes, like blogging. This results in apathy in the authority, who don't consider blocking of blogs a serious thing. Otherwise they wouldn't have blocked blogspot for so many days.

It must be the first instance when Indian authorities have censorship in their own hands, unlike China and many other countries, where Government controls Internet activities. Blocking of Internet sites is almost impossible thing to do. Even when blogspot.com is blocked people can still access blogs through news feeds. So blocking is not proving efficient. So no point in doing such maneuvers. India is a democratic country, with freedom of speech. Activities like this would contribute to tarnishing the image of the country in free world.

As I had quoted in one of my previous posts, Thomas Friedman, in his famous book 'The World is flat' says - In the flat world, one cannot prevent anyone from seeing anything, as there are no valleys or mountains left to hide. So I urge DoT to restore the blogspot. India is a democratic country and let it be!