And guess what? Fixed without the help of the ACLU. One would have thought the ACL-f'ing-U would have stood up for the freedom of speech of the Band of the Banned, but, alas, we were neither liberal wackjobs nor terrorists. Just some people who know how to photoshop.
(From the International Herald Tribune) After two days of angry inquiries and charges of government censorship, the Indian government took a step towards explaining a mysterious block to personal blogs, calling it "a technological error" that would be repaired soon.
In an e-mail sent early Thursday an official at the Consulate General of India in New York said the order to block a handful of Web sites, including the popular blogspot.com, which hosts thousands of personal blogs, had been prompted by the discovery of a Web site that contained what the official called "two impertinent pages" rife with material that contained "extremely derogatory references to Islam."
So which is it? A technological error, are a purposeful blockade? The two impertinet pages were the Flush The Koran project.
Anyhow, if you read the rest of the article from the Herald Trib, you will see that the government is all over the place in explaining this away.
Looking at sitemeter, I am getting some hits from India. Could be unblocked or just smart, savvy techy people :)
Anyhow, this document shows it was not a technological error (via Macker):
Doesn't look like a mistake to me.
Anyhow, there is a nice article about this in the San Jose Mercury News, which, unfortunately, uses my real name. Oh, well.
Miss Beth mentions how the Indian gov't is having problems controlling its extremist population, leading to censorship. Check it out.
Update, 6:10pm: apparently, not unbanned.
