Yup, we can login to typepad or blogspot directly to do the postings. For viewing the blogs, we will have to access them via proxy. But this is a very shitty decision from Indian Govt.
Did the government ban sex.com, fu*k.com , and all other must ban sites?? What are the reasons behind this move by the goverment?? Sumit: This is the time to raise your voice (The webmaster community in India).
Congress Govt of India Is a miserable failure.... Fuck them to ban Blogs.. I dont think this ban is going to last long. This is serious violation of the rights of Information and freedom of speech. However Indian People are regretting having a dummy Govt with a PM with no balls Thank god that all of my blogs have own domain names so I can easily view them. But we must raise our voices against this..
they can't stop pornography but trying to stop terrorism. I am wondering how can they stop terrorism by blocking our blogs.
Totally agreed, i myself moved all my blogs to my own server and switched over to WP long ago. But i have a few friends who are really struck by this fuckin decision by Indian Govt. They just want to be in news, just to show off that they are 'seriously' doing something. I want to, i will lookout for a proper channel to do that. I have a few editor friends in some reputed newspapers, i will contact them and see what we can do.
old news now http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=109536 as iam losing a lot of traffic from my blogs Somehting has to be done.
What can we do? I am not sure if we can file a 'Class Action Law Suite' against DoT!! Something has to be done!! If anyone here has any idea about course of action, then i am with you.
Revolt???... It's Your Country & Homeland, you guys should be the ones making the decisions... Seems all over the world leaders that have no clue are the ones getting into power...
Sumit we cant do anything, we can only use proxies to go through our blogs and practice other get-arounds, direct access is going bye-bye though IT
This is obviously a very stupid decision and i think it would be taken back. I am not gonna sit quite, i will try to do what i can. I am thinking of starting with some local newspapers.
All of my blogs are on my own server but for the people who were relying only on blogspot or typepad, its very difficult for them to move the blogs to their own servers. Plus traffic would be dead on the local (Indian) blogs as no one in India can access these blogs which is a major factor IMO.
One of my blog had only students traffic and 100% targetted , got around 600-1200 visitors daily now ~50
I am thinking of calling up MumbaiMirror today and report this. They are a part of TimeofIndia. If anyone will like to email and help us plz send a email to : mumbai.mirror[at]timesgroup.com
Hello friends, I came to know the follwoing: 1. On July 13th the DoT has instructed the ISPs to block 17 websites. 2. They include some blogs, some websites hosted on Yahoo!'s Geocities.com and some other websites 3. these websites were propagating hatred and anti india messages. 4. ISPs unable to block a particular blog from say blogspot.com , put a blanket ban of blogspot.com Please updates this thread with more news and views on this matter.
govt. denied to give any reason for banning blogs. As sumit said they just wanna show people that altleast they are doing something after mumbai blasts, thats it. Stupid Junks in our govt.
this makes no sense whatsoever, why would the Indian government want to disadvantage its own web(blog)masters?