Can anybody from India access any Yahoo! Geocities websites? For
> example try
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or any other geocities
> website you know of. As far as we know, various ISP's from Delhi,
> Bombay and Calcutta are unable to connect to any geocities websites
> for the past week or so. Does anybody know what the problem is?
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According to a report on NDTV 24X7, an Indian news channel, the Indian
> government's clampdown on blogsites (and some websites) is NOT connected
> to the recent blasts in Mumbai, but is an effort to curb the propagation
> of religious extremism on the Net. If that's true, the ban may not be
> lifted any time soon. The Indian government, however, has yet to issue
> an official statement on the subject.
> If it's not clear from what has been said so far, the Indian ban
> applies to ALL blogs from these sites, not just those originating in
> India: ALL blogspot, typepad, geocities blogs worldwide. If you have
> a blog from one of these providers anywhere in the world, I cannot > read you.
> It's odd that we can still post to our own blogs, and read the blogs
> that we have had the foresight to subscribe to through RSS. These
> loopholes may be closed soon, if this is to be a long-term policy.
> The list of blocked sites includes:
> hinduunity.org
> hinduhumanrights.org
> princesskimberley.com
> bloodspot.com
> dalitstan.org
> clickatell.com
> blogspot.com
> geocities.com
> typepad.com