India Blocks Blogs in Wake of Mumbai Bombings. Review on Should Internet Content be Censored

Why?? What is there to Hide. I have seen most of these blogs are by well educated and well informed people, just like most of our star members on MS. Infact I got around to veiwing most of the blogs com via a proxy. There is no false propaganda or any rumours spreading. Infact on of the blogs were giving an hourly update and was mainly concentrating of giving out information that would help readers find their near and dear ones. The govt. has taken an unnecesary step here. This only raises doubts as to what was it that the Govt. was trying to hide. There have been blast but there was not attempt to censor free speech.(in this case a genuine intent to help people with information) The biggest questin we have to ask the govt is how can they do this. Isnt this a violation of you civil rights. Is this a facist regime. Censorships like this only take place in countries like China, Pakistan and North Korea. Even though America has so many "conspiracy sites" they never block any of the site. There are some site which claim that President Bush and the Queen of Britain are "reptilians" and many people even believe such ridiculous things but there has been no attempt to shutdown these sites. Some blogs are being "monitered" by the FBI and then those Bloggers are booked under the "patriotic Act". Even though Patriotic ACt is against the american constituion as claimed by many americans and is very obvious, atleast America passed a Bill to do all and have declared that they will censor speech. But Indian government has not bothered about our rights as a citizen at all. If they can do this they I am sure they will start doing much more. This is a direct insult to our freedom and the struggle of our great leaders. I am dissappointed that this is happening in my country. Most of the Blogs should be working but if they are not listed below are ways you can view blocked sites. 1: There are websites Anonymizer who fetch the blocked site/ page from their servers and display it to you. As far as the service provider is concerned you are viewing a page from Anonymizer and not the blocked site. 2: To access the blocked Web site. type the IP number instead of the URL in the address bar. But if the ISP software maps the IP address to the web server (reverse DNS lookup), the website will remain blocked. 3: Use a URL redirection service like tinyurl.com or snipurl.com. These domain forward services sometimes work as the address in the the url box remain the redirect url and do not change to the banned site. 4: Use Google Mobile Search. Google display the normal HTML pages as if you are viewing them on a mobile phone. During the translation, Google removes the javascript content and CSS scripts and breaks a longer page into several smaller pages. [link] View this website in Google Mobile 5: Enter the URL in Google or Yahoo search and then visit the cached copy of the page. To retrieve the page more quickly from Google’s cache, click "Cached Text Only" while the browser is loading the page from cache. 6: A recent Oreilly story on accessing blocked websites suggested an approach to access restricted web sites using Google language tools service as a proxy server. Basically, you have Google translate your page from English to English (or whatever language you like). Assuming that Google isn’t blacklisted in your country or school, you should be able to access any site with this method. Visit this site via Google Proxy 7: Anonymous Surfing Surf the internet via a proxy server. A proxy server (or proxies) is a normal computer that hides the identity of computers on its network from the Internet. Which means that only the address of the proxy server is visible to the world and not of those computers that are using it to browse the Internet. Just visit the proxy server website with your Web browser and enter a URL (website address) in the form provided