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Re: Unable to Access Yahoo! Geocities Websites From India

Dave Garland (dave.garland@wizinfo.com)
Tue, 18 Jul 2006 23:05:15 -0500

It was a dark and stormy night when crankbuster <crankbuster@lycos.com>
wrote:

> Can anybody from India access any Yahoo! Geocities websites? For
> example try http://www.geocities.com/lupeliti/ or any other geocities
> website you know of. As far as we know, various ISP's from Delhi,
> Bombay and Calcutta are unable to connect to any geocities websites
> for the past week or so. Does anybody know what the problem is?

From
http://chennai.metblogs.com/archives/2006/07/bloggers_blocked_across_india_3.phtml

> According to a report on NDTV 24X7, an Indian news channel, the Indian
> government's clampdown on blogsites (and some websites) is NOT connected
> to the recent blasts in Mumbai, but is an effort to curb the propagation
> of religious extremism on the Net. If that's true, the ban may not be
> lifted any time soon. The Indian government, however, has yet to issue
> an official statement on the subject.

> If it's not clear from what has been said so far, the Indian ban
> applies to ALL blogs from these sites, not just those originating in
> India: ALL blogspot, typepad, geocities blogs worldwide. If you have
> a blog from one of these providers anywhere in the world, I cannot
> read you.

> It's odd that we can still post to our own blogs, and read the blogs
> that we have had the foresight to subscribe to through RSS. These
> loopholes may be closed soon, if this is to be a long-term policy.

> The list of blocked sites includes:

> hinduunity.org
> hinduhumanrights.org
> princesskimberley.com
> bloodspot.com
> dalitstan.org
> clickatell.com
> blogspot.com
> geocities.com
> typepad.com

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