India closes access to Blogger, Typepad, and Geocities in the name of “fight against terrorism”
It is a slippery slope when democracies close down information sources in the name of blocking content that is “‘anti-national’ and ‘against public interest’.” But apparently that is exactly what happened in India, with the government blocking access to Blogger, Typepad, Geocities and a list of other sites 21 pages long.
Well known blogger Gautam Ghosh blogs the story on his personal blog, which is hosted on wordpress and which so far seems to have escaped the ban order.
History is fraught with bad examples of governments trading “freedom of speech” for increased government control to achieve the (supposed) protection of “other freedoms.”
This is bad news all along…
[Tags: democracy india terrorism freedom of speech]
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July 17th, 2006 at 11:33 pm
Ah les cons!
February 1st, 2007 at 9:06 am
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