India too will be following the footsteps of China to restrict the access to certain websites mainly news and blogs. Such situation once aroused during the 26/11 attack and all the TV news channels were censored with the news and latest happenings about the attack. Now, this has been extended to the internet space and the censor will be beyond the emergency situations as well.
The censor central board will monitor the different websites, news portals and blogs and will block those materials which they find it as a threat to national security.
Note sure, if this will help a complete censor of the information the board wants to block. The internet is such a wide spread area that the news spreads much faster than light here that too with only a click on the mouse. And if such news is discussed on the social media sites then Facebook and Twitter will also have to be blocked? There is another news that Iranian government has blocked Facebook in the country to stop supporters of a candidate for the upcoming presidential elections from using the site for campaign. So, what's next?
Source: SiliconIndia
Saturday, May 30, 2009
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