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Lycos critical of MSN chat room closure Microsoft may say otherwise, but the reason for closure is most obviously Financial.

All Media reporting seems to concentrating on the fact that a single yahoo group has been banned. but the fact of the matter is. It is the entire Yahoo Groups sub-domain groups.yahoo.com that has been banned... The ultimate irony is tht everyone know knows of this yahoo group... and atleast worldwide (if not india) people can read what the dissidents have to say... and this censorship has made them more famous, rather than consign them oblivion which was the intention... The IT ACT 2000 says it allos for balanced flow of information ... which is bullshit. It is censorship plain and simple. What is most pissing is that hey don't even know how to do it properly.

CNET Story on the blocking of Yahoo Groups

Bill aims to curb Net censorship ... They better finish it very quickly... How soon before the Indian Government start banning emails...

Another story on censorship of Yahoo Groups by the Indian Government.

I was looking for coverage of the blocking of Yahoo Groups by the Indian Government and I stumbled onto Google News Alerts .. Neat... I can already see possibilities here... I can set an alert for "Chirag Patnaik" be the first to know when I get famous...

Times of India article on the Yahoo Groups censorship

Wikipedia entry on censorship in china... it is pretty comprehensive, in terms of what the Chinese government has been doing, plus what the world has been doing to circumvent it... How long before we have a similar entry for India?

This is the first major censorship attempt by the Govenment of India. My alumni group runs on yahoogroups... I'm really really pissed. Apart from anonymizer.com , there is Guardster.com , the-cloak.com and the dmoz/google directory of free anonymising proxies... this is al very fine.. but I can't login to see the mesages on the group... The Cloak is supposed to allow it, but it doesn't seem to work... suggestions welcome

Govt. of India blocks Yahoogroups access from India. Why? because it did not like what was going on two of the groups there... Ths is the most asinine thing I've ever heard... I don't know why we even believe we live in a democracy...

Whatever will they think of next??

Dgital Blasphemy has some neat computer generated pics...