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Clandestine Internet Censorship in India

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the too-hot-for-your-screen dept.

nooyi86 writes "China and the Middle East block sites in order to suppress political or social dissent. Website blocking in India, on the other hand, is driven by national security-related paranoia, or hate speech that may lead to violence. The state must save its citizens from propaganda of both the extreme right and the extreme left. Shivam Vij has posted a comprehensive profile of Internet censorship in India."

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  1. Re:Another grey area... by shreevatsa · · Score: 5, Funny

    For those who doubt that this is really happening in India, here is conclusive proof:
    I'm in India, and I cannot access the article. In fact, I've seen this happen to many articles that Slashdot links to! ;-)


    BTW, the page gives a Wordpress error saying "Error establishing a database connection"... nevermind, it's back up again; maybe the guy was just fiddling with some settings.