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'Anti-Congress' blogs blocked
Published on Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 09:25, Updated on Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 10:19 in 
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New Delhi: The block against various websites has been lifted but the ban is still in place.
It seems there is a definite slant to the websites that have been banned - a stance that is not anti-national, but anti-congress.
India's Department of Telecommunications (DoT) passed an order to ISPs on July 14 to block blog sites, as they were said to be spreading anti-national message. The list of the websites to be blocked was confidential.
HinduUnity.org, one of the 17 websites banned by the Government, calls itself the mouthpiece of the Bajrang Dal - a quasi-political party.
The owner of another banned website RahulYadav.com thinks the UPA government has banned the site for political reasons.
Exposingtheleft.blogspot.com - one of the four banned blogs on the list has its Sunday post on Congress trying to block a film being made about Sonia Gandhi.
The funniest of the lot is bamapachyderm.com - a woman's self-proclaimed vast right wing conspiracy, which is obviously anti national to the UPA Government.
"There is no provision in the IT Act as it stands now for them impose such a ban in the first place," lawyer and blogger, Gopal Sankaranarayanan says.
All the sites in the list that the Government has banned contain anti-Muslim slash anti-Congress rhetoric. While the website of the Hezbollah's tv channel is not only accessible in India it's hosted here as well.
What everyone questions is, why did the Government ban them and not sue them for defamation charges.
"What we don't know is if such bans have been imposed in the past there are millions and billions of sites that we don't access everyday that could be blocked," Sankaranarayanan says.
The question that remains unanswered is why would the Government want to ban the sites? Is it national security that's at stake or reasons that’s just political.
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