Net gains: Blogspot to be back soon
If you were amongst those who have been unable to access your blog on the popular Blogspot domain over the last couple of days, your ordeal is likely to end within the next 48 hours.
By Joji Thomas Philip, TNN |
NEW DELHI: If you were amongst those who have been unable to access your blog on the popular Blogspot domain over the last couple of days, your ordeal is likely to end within the next 48 hours.
The Internet Service Providers Association of India, the body representing all internet service providers, on Wednesday instructed all its members to lift the blockage at the domain level.
This means that if you have a blog where the domain level is Blogspot or Typepad, this blockage will no longer apply to all users, but only at the sub-domain level. At the sub-domain level, only those 17 blogs which have been blacklisted by the government will continue to be inaccessible.
However, this will take anywhere between 24 and 48 hours to implement, and comes with another rider — your blog may continue to be blocked if your service provider does not have the monitoring mechanism for selective blockage at the sub-domain level.
In yet another development, government sources said that the proposed amendments to the IT Act are likely to be changed to incorporate factors such as blogs and other platforms on the internet, where users can post their opinions.
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Government sources also added that the ban on specific blogs was unlikely to be lifted and also did not rule out the possibility of it being made permanent. India has about 40,000 active bloggers, while over ten times this number is estimated to have opened a blog, but are not regular users. Download
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