India's Department of Telecomunications has begun to
block dozens of websites, including any site from Blogger, TypePad and
Geocities. Working from a '22-page list', ISPs in India have been
instructed to prevent access to all listed websites. More information
available from WithinAndWithout, SeaCrow and BoingBoing
From BoingBoing:
An Indian political blog is reporting that the ban was initiated by
the Indian intelligence service to stop terrorism: Link.
According to their source, the terrorists are using blogs to communicate. Not only
is this useless (because the terrorists can simply use proxies), it's
akin to shutting off the country's telephone service because
terrorists talk to each other through phones.