Bans on Vimeo and daily motion have been lifted.
These are usually short timed bans.
I think these were done for the benefit of the people and I simply support them.
Benson I think that you are worrying too much. The bans will soon be lifted.
Not worried too much about the ban or access mate. Proxies, VPN's, etc are solutions to this problem.
While I do support some forms of censorship which are beneficial to people, The person censoring has to be very careful as this is a delicate matter. Why not just block the offending URL's if it was a temporary ban? The response they gave was that blocking the URL will not prevent people from moving to a different one. So, how does blocking the website help? Won't people just move to a different, better one?
I assume that in the long run, we will lose millions of dollars in terms of Software Export, as some companies may just switch off to the Idea of outsourcing to a country that has censorship issues.
What polynesia mentioned is correct, we jeer when youtube or twitter gets blocked in some country, but are complacent when it happens here.
What happens if tomorrow, GOI decides to Block FB? Or AWS? Or what if a China Firewall is slowly building up in India as well?
These are issues that have to be prevented. The complacency shown by everyone during this debacle, more or less shows that India does want a censored internet and that is a wee bit sad.
