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India Joins China in Censoring Websites

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the keeping-up-with-the-wangs dept.

cpatil writes "On the directions of the government of India, Indian ISPs have started censoring and blocking web properties. This was first noticed by Indian bloggers and upon inquiring with their respective ISPs, the actions are confirmed. Unfortunately, Blogspot and TypePad are the targets till now." There's an ongoing discussion of the censorship on GoogleGroups. The rediff.com coverage linked above indicates that the blocking is based on a list issued by India's Department of Telecommunications.

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  1. Re:I support State censorship of all media by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    For some odd reason, the participants in the free market never saw building a global packet network as an opportunity.

    Uh, what about the privately run X.25 networks (Compuserve, Tymnet, and Telenet)? These were operating in the early 70's when TCP/IP was still "in the crib." So TCP/IP won out in the end...

    The first commercial ISP (UUNET) appeared in 1987 when there were only about 10,000 hosts on the Internet.

    By 1991, the Commercial Internet eXchange (CIX) connected General Atomics (CERFnet), PSInet, and UUNET. So despite TCP/IP being development mainly by the military-industrial complex, it was rapidly taken up by commercial interests. Keep in mind that the NSF AUPs made Internet commercialization difficult before then.

    I've seen plenty of free market global packet networks built...