Free To Blog...Again
Rediff reports "In a press release on Thursday, the Department of Telecom (DoT) said it has asked Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to explain why action should not be taken against them for unintentionally blocking some Web sites."This of course refers to the fact that all blogs hosted on sites such as blogger, typepad and geosites had been blocked by many of the Indian ISPs from July 15 onwards. The ban will now be lifted in the next 48 hours.
The unblocking of these sites is largely thanks to the fact that many of the mainstream journalist bloggers got together and saw to it that the government got a lot of negative publicity because of what was done.
Freedom to express is definitely the most important thing that magnetizes each one of us (from such different backgrounds) to this medium, but it is also one of the most accessible ways today to get together and work towards a single cause. Be it for a technical, personal or a social one. Take for example, Mumbai Help which was set up after the 7/11 Mumbai blasts as a means through which people could reach their loved ones in Mumbai, and find out that whether they were fine. Or for that matter, the Hyderabad Technology Blog. :)
Thankfully, all this uncertainty about going the Pakistan way and not being able to blog is all behind us now. We are free to blog. Once more. On whichever site we choose. So just get going, and fire up those blogging spirits once more.
posted by Jayeeta Majumdar Singhee @ 10:44 PM
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