Now, web policing in India!

I cannot believe my eyes. Found this on Boing Boing [Link]:

India's Department of Telecommunications (DoT) passed an order to ISPs Friday to block several websites. The list is confidential. Indian ISPs have been slowly coming into compliance. SpectraNet, MTNL, Reliance, and as of Monday afternoon, Airtel. State-backed BSNL and VSNL have not started yet but likely will soon. The known list of blocked domains is *.blogspot.com, *.typepad.com and geocities.com/*. Read more ...

Over and over again, we are seeing across the world how inept and unscrupulous governments are undermining the voice of their own citizens- the very people who put them up there. Where they could take one step forward and do some real work for their people, they take two steps backward and begin opening these ugly cans of worms! I really cannot believe this is happening in our country! I was proud to have a President and a Prime Minister who came from such illustrious backgrounds. But over and over again they have dissappointed the nation! I guess- courage to stand up for the right thing would likely be the thing they need a lot more ...

Update: There is still a lot of confusion on what's happening on this front. For the latest follow this link on the wiki [Link]. This email group has also been setup by some bloggers [Link].

India Uncut says ... [Link]
Mutiny says ... [Link]

It's been knocking on our doors, and soon it will be unavoidable- who should and how should the web be monitored or regulated? Where do we start and where do we stop? And does that stop just there or are we going to take lessons from our Big Brother and start spying on our citizens? As for the web, just like every thing good, we've got to deal with it's side-effects too.