India bans blogspot and other online services
After Pakistan,India also joined movement of banning Blogger ,Google’s blogging service.
Few days ago Kumar asked me whether blogspot is accessible.Kumar was able to vist his and mine blog via pkblogs.com service. It was ignored by him by saying it some ‘glitch’. But today slashdot
qouted rediff’s report about this censorship.The officials of Department of Telecommunication confirmed this ban.
Unlike Pakistan who just banned blogger’s service due to cartoon issue and I was one of few who actually suported it,Indian’s DoT has banned TypePad,Yahoo’s Geocities and Google’s blogger.com.Reason hasnot been told and said its confidential.
I am not sure what could be the reason but there could be a ‘Pakistan’ factor in it,though I didnt find much condemnation by Pakistani bloggers about India’s recent movement to blame Pakistan in recent Mumbai blasts.
Updated:In case you are not aware,India has banned Pakistani TV channels long time back.Majority of Indians cant watch Pakistani dramas. Here PEMRA has banned Indian cable channels.India banned due to national intrest while Pakistan banned because no one here was paying attention to local entertainment shit by private TV channels.Now Pakistani channels often show crappy Indian shows on regular basis.
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July 19th, 2006 at 12:20 am
I just thought it would be nice to offer the Indian websites the script that you created for us on Bloggers.pk it will help create friends across the border
http://censorship.wikia.com/wiki/Bypassing_The_Ban
July 19th, 2006 at 4:18 am
I think we should support the blogspot ban. Here the reason why: http://asad.wordpress.com/2006/07/18/support-the-blogspot-ban/
July 19th, 2006 at 9:39 am
Jazakallah for your thought Awab.No one will doubt on your pure thought about friendship but I believe theory of two-way friendship.
Here we are dying for friendship and Indians keep doing propaganda against Pakistan and Islam,whether you visit sepiamutiny or anyother website.
I have no issue with script.You can donate it to anyone.
July 19th, 2006 at 10:11 am
Addu I can visit ur blog
I can watch PTV, I told u bout that song,
I can very well listent to and watch propaganda done by both sides of the border.
Its evident that Governments on both sides want to keep the “Aam Aadmi” in dark. Due to this darkness majority of the “Awaam” on both sides think that other side of the border is “Pakka Thikana” of enemy.
Now some people, me, U addu and doc saab can use our grey cells and also this technology to find out who the real enemy is. am not bothered by the ban. I will move my blog to my own domain.