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.

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