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# India: when silence can be violent.
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/18804/
- Published: 2006-07-19T11:07:59.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:35:03.000Z
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:23

**By Jessica Reed**  
  
A couple of days ago I blogged about how the Indian blogosphere [**had proved to be incredibly helpful**](../../../?permalink=7-11-Web-solidarity-1.html&smm=y) for thousands of Internet users wanting to talk, share, debate and help one another. Cyber solidarity was alive and kicking, giving bloggers a reason to rejoice at our global humanity after last week's terrible events.  
  
Today the blogosphere wakes up in horror as it learns that blogs published on major blog platforms - Geocities, Blog\*Spot and Typepad - [**are being censored in India**](http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/19/world/asia/19india.html?%5Fr=1&oref=slogin&ref=opendemocracy.net). Most pages are blocked by IP adresses, making it impossible for readers to catch up with their daily blogging-reading routine. A Wikipage has been created by Indian bloggers [**protesting against censorship**](http://censorship.wikia.com/wiki/Protests%5FBy%5FBloggers?ref=opendemocracy.net).

The governmental move seems ridiculously out of line : I for one fail to see how censoring blogs will ever protect people from terrorism . On the contrary, it seems like India is abiding by the unspoken rules of terror.

**Elsewhere**: Desipundit's regularly updated [**take on the affair.** ](http://www.desipundit.com/2006/07/15/blogspotcom-blocked-in-india-by-some-isps/?ref=opendemocracy.net)Indian blogger Sepia Mutiny editorialises with the headline [**'The terrorists have won'.**](http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/003580.html?ref=opendemocracy.net) The India Express offers [**an intended list of blogs**](http://www.indianexpress.com/story/8806.html?ref=opendemocracy.net) 'to be banned'.

**More on censorship:** Let us not forget that back in January 2006 Google Inc. agreed to [**censor its results in China**](http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/48537?ref=opendemocracy.net), adhering to 'the country's free-speech restrictions in return for better access in the Internet's fastest growing market'. oD's Becky Hogge asked Google some [**grown-up questions**](../../../media/google%5F3230.jsp).