Blocked blogs and pants

Hey guys, guys, guys (which includes gals),
Hold your horses….. I know banning websites makes the Indian government look like the Chinese/North Korean/US/Saudi Arabian (etc) ones. But other than that fact we need to analyse what’s going on first before we start filing PILs (by the tons) against them.

I finally got a list of some of the banned websites from BBC (and NO, they haven’t banned the entire blogspot.com):

www.hinduunity.org
exposingtheleft.blogspot.com
pajamaeditors.blogspot.com
commonfolkcommonsense.blogspot.com
www.hinduhumanrights.org/hindufocus.html
princesskimberley.blogspot.com

I visited them all (I could coz I don’t live in India) and it seems that the banned websites fall under three main categories:

1. Completely innocent and VERY boring blogs which are trying to act as if they are doing a great favour by publicizing their conspiracy theories about the US government/other US politicos
2. Hindu extremist websites who make the KKK look likes peace-corps in comparison
3. Plain news blogs (with some mild bias)

One of the sites didn’t fall into any of the above categories: it was completely blank…… blank maybe coz they got caught with their pants down?

So? What’s actually going on? Unnamed sources of the Indian gov have been telling the media that some these sites were passing coded messages to terrorists in India.

Considering the content of these sites (except those which fall in category 2) I can’t think of any other reason these sites could have been blocked for.

While I agree that the government has to be really careful of not stepping on the right of freedom of expression, I really don’t think that “….The ban is cutting us (Indians) off from the people”!! Come on!!! Why didn’t you all file a PIL against the July 2003 ISP law that the government had passed? Coz now their move is VERY legal!

Anyways, the hullabaloo goes on…..