Indian government drops plan to censor the internet

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/No-question-of-Internet-censorship--assures-govt/888443/

by combiclickwise • 15 years ago

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Brajeshwar• 15 years ago

That's pretty quick. I'm willing to bet, the future of Indian lies in the online growth, the Internet and digital is the way to way.

skbohra123• 15 years ago

Yeah, but that's not a tough thing to guess, it holds true for any developing country.

suhastech• 15 years ago

The corruption in the country will cancel out the effect...

pm902• 15 years ago

"How does social media use its own platform to ensure that the voice of the marginalized is heard by government, which otherwise sometimes is not heard"

marginalized? Those are the millions who don't have access to the internet, let alone social networks (let alone English proficiency...). I don't know what they are upto, but usually what they (Indian Politicians) say can never be taken at face value.

johnx123-up• 15 years ago

http://viewtext.org/article?url=http://www.indianexpress.com... for clutter-free reading

mike-cardwell• 15 years ago

Hmm. It seems ViewText can't handle simple character set conversion.

It also doesn't decode html entities in anchor tag href's before fixing them up and uri escaping them for it's redirector, breaking every single external link on my website. That's ok though, I blocked that site from accessing mine ages ago for this reason, and because they didn't fix it when I reported it, and because they fake their robots UA to be Internet Explorer, and because they ignore robots.txt.

EDIT: Regarding the charset conversion issue. This doesn't really show up on IE and Chrome. Basically, there are numerous places where there are double quotes in the original article. When viewing the viewtext version with Firefox, the characters are mangled. In Chrome and IE, they are simply not displayed. The original page is ISO-8859-1 and is described as such by both the HTTP response header, and the Content-type meta tag in the head.

nextparadigms• 15 years ago

One less country MPAA can't use as an example to pass SOPA.

yummyfajitas• 15 years ago

Their plans are dropped? So can someone in India confirm that Savita Bhabi and other censored sites are back online?

altrego99• 15 years ago

I can confirm that atleast the restriction on Undernet IRC (us.undernet.org:6667) is still active.

pm902• 15 years ago

their plans of further censoring are dropped; i don't think this affects sites already censored..

jwblackwell• 15 years ago

China could learn a lot from India

Indian government drops plan to censor the internet

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