According to a report in economictimes.com, the department of telecommunications (DoT) is planning to deploy a screening system to block individuals websites and blogs that are perceived as threats to national security. As per the report:
The technology to be put in place at the eight landing stations - which bring international bandwidth into the country - will be capable of blocking websites at a sub-domain level, thus saving internet service providers (ISPs) from a sweeping shutdown.
This is not the first time that bloggers in India are going to bear the brunt, in July this year many blog sites including Google Blogspot was blocked.
Hope Babus will comes out with a clear definition of "dangerous blogs" such that bloggers can take precaution.
The technology to be put in place at the eight landing stations - which bring international bandwidth into the country - will be capable of blocking websites at a sub-domain level, thus saving internet service providers (ISPs) from a sweeping shutdown.
This is not the first time that bloggers in India are going to bear the brunt, in July this year many blog sites including Google Blogspot was blocked.
Hope Babus will comes out with a clear definition of "dangerous blogs" such that bloggers can take precaution.
1 comment:
Its another balancing act between individual freedom and collective security. The frustration is quite understandable from the bloggers point of view. However I don't think the everyday bloggers have anything to worry - unless they pose a threat to national security - specially if it is done at subdomain level. If terrorist.blogspot.com is taken down, brijeshtech.blogspot.com will still be up & running, so that Brijesh's friends can freely blog their crap comments (like this one)!
-Rajib.
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