Blocking Blogging
Ethan Zuckerman writes:
Quick - what do India, Pakistan, China and Ethiopia have in common?
It’s not a love of cricket. Or clandestine nuclear arms programs. Or even a fondness for flatbread.
They’re all - apparently - blocking blogspot.com.
India is the newcomer to this party, and it’s unclear just what blogs are being blocked, whether all ISPs are complying, and whether all blogspot blogs will be blocked or just a subset of sites. Fortunately, Indian bloggers are on the case, rapidly documenting just what can and can’t be reached.
Neha Viswanathan - Global Voices editor for South Asia and lovely human being - is doing a fantastic job of documenting the situation on her blog. Reading from the top to the bottom of a recent post - with fourteen updates - you get an excellent sense of how Indian bloggers are figuring out just what, precisely, is going on. She points to several other articles, which have excellent summaries of the situation, as people currently understand it, including Rediff, Amit, and Dina.
