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/*. Yes folks, the Indian government has decided to censor blogs and refused to explain why.

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/07/17/report_indian_gov_bl.html

Well, I can understand China doing this, y'know... since they're actually communist. But I'm pretty sure India isn't communist or a dictatorship. :confusion

Good thing people can still register domains! No one will ever stop us muahhaha!

Tokyo, that's the first thing I thought as well.. 'I'm pretty sure India isn't communist, hmm' :confusion

I hope mine isn't blocked :eek:

:O Thats really strange, I don't know why either

Hope my website isn't blocked! If it's blocked, then I'm moving my site to a new host!

Tokyo, Lissa--I thought the same thing too. China, I can understand. India, not really.

Looking at the article, it seems to be a move to stop terrorist groups from communicating, but one never knows. One would think that it's in response to the train bombings, but I don't think you could force anything through any bureaucracy in a week. (Maybe it was in the works beforehand...?)