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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."

3 of 134 comments (clear)

  1. In America... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The Extreme Left and Extreme Right should should French Kiss themselves to death to let the Extreme Moderates run this country. The World would be better off.

  2. Re:Site down, please change link! by nooyi86 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Can this change please be made?

  3. FBI's indymedia censorship by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    India, in most cases only blocks access to the alleged hate-speech sites within the country and they don't go after the site owners and make arrests. On one instance, the US FBI on the other hand even went to the extent of seizing the Rackspace servers of Independent Media Center(IMC) in the UK, on a request from Italian and swiss governments.

    http://www.indymedia.org/en/2004/10/111999.shtml
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indymedia#.28Alleged. 29_Seizure_of_servers_by_the_FBI
    http://www.eff.org/Censorship/Indymedia/