It is nothing but a better example of in competency and lack of know-how about the cyber technology established by the government of India. The other side of the coin is thatit seems the technology has left the law behind in India. In fact there is no established competitive law to stop cyber crime.



And after the Mumbai bomb blasts, finally, the government find a way to stop the process of gathering information by terrorists, just block the websites, and that’s all.



Three cheers for the ‘babus’ who literally made the decision and clinch the government’s feet in another intellectual conflict. Now Indian bloggers are writing on a high mode and criticizing the governments move on this matter.



International media are showing very much concern over this new burning issue in making. The surprising thing is that there is no official announcement made by the government until yet.



Guardian .co.uk says that

Delhi blogging community is going to file a petition to the high court. According to the community,

the government ordered to block about twenty blogs. The government should ensure us that this is an orderly manner without violating our rights. The government of India should go to other way and it might make bloggers and blog sites liable for content. For this, there are provisions under the information act 2000.

There is nothing mentioned in the legislation for the blogs and bloggers. This is the real problem.



According to The Wall Street Journal the Internet Service Providers Association of India says that India’s Department of Telecommunications has elucidated that the Internet-service providers have to block access only to specific blogs within the sites, the order was not for entire sites that contain blogs.



The ABC Online presents the statement of Gulshan Rai, director of the Ministry of Communication’s Indian Computer Emergency Response Team. He said

the ban order was not a specific response to the attack. These blogs are pitting Muslim against non-Muslim.

However, Bloggers in India have reacted with annoyance, as they say, this is an corrosion of free speech.



One of the Internet service provider, Spectranet has confirmed to receive the order by the government but had only been able to follow the ban by blocking entire domains.



It says further that its technical personals are working on a more accurate block that would only restrict access to the 17 banned sites.



The Committee to Protect Journalists has written a letter to the Prime Minister to intervene in to the matter.



The age published the statement of a Sarabjit Roy, a cyber law expert. He said,

This block is a mindless exercise and shows our bureaucrats don’t understand technology at all

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