Some people have wondered whether the ban on the websites, as put forth by the India Dept. Of Telecommunications is still in effect. I recently had an interview with a nice you woman for a newspaper article, which should be out this week, regarding this issue.
Well, as far as I can determine, it is in effect. It's just that most of the Indian internet providers are ignoring it, and I suppose that the DoT is not pushing it.
However, every once in awhile I play with proxy IP's. In this case "202.159.203.156 port 80." This is what I recieved:
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Yes, yes, a 500 server error can be many things. However, consider. The Jawa Report, Macker's World, Pajama Editors, Common Folks Using Common Sense (old and new address'), MVRWC, Opinipundit and Merri Musings (new address), Yahoo Pictures, and my site all had that 500 error. Yet, several Blogger sites, such as Amy Ridenhours National Center blog and Julie With a B (I tested more) did not. CNN did not. Google did not. Yahoo did not. Several stand alone blogs, such as Moonbattery, Michelle Malkin, Just Raven and Hooah Wife and Friends did not (I did test more, too). Nor did Basil, who uses Dreamhost like I do. Nor did my American Flag League, despite it sort of being part of the piratescove.us domain. Nor did my ncdevil.com/pc test blog, same server as piratescove.us.
Also, several mu nu blogs got the same error. I did not test them all, but everyone I did, bupkiss!
Yet, we still aren't banned in Iran or Saudi Arabia. I played with some alt IP's from them, too. We are just banned by a so called democracy.
