RE: Indian Government Ban of Net Access to Pakistani Newspaper Broken

["Arun Mehta" <amehta@giasdl01.vsnl.net.in>]

Well put, Ahmed.

Such efforts at censorship show a terrible understanding of what the
Internet is about. The British bureaucrats who formulated the Indian
Telegraph Act of 1885 must be roaring with  laughter in their graves, in
that they succeeded in imprisoning and colonising our thinking 50 years
after their government supposedly set us free.

By the way, the Rediff site, which has a good article on the subject,
http://www.rediff.com/computer/1999/jul/05dawn.htm

mentions the following ways to bypass the censorship:

Anonymizer
http://www.anonymizer.com/
Dawn via Anonymizer
http://anon-ascella.free.anonymizer.com/http://www.dawn.com/daily/19990705/
Aixs Net Privacy
http://aixs.net/aixs/
Dawn via Aixs Net Privacy
http://aixs.net/aixs/nph-anon.cgi/http/www.dawn.com/daily/19990705/
Lucent Personalized Web Assistant (Registration required)
http://www.bell-labs.com/project/lpwa/
WebFringe Anonymizer (Site down on day of publication)
http://www.webfringe.com/anon/
Interfree Services Anonymizer (Pay service)
http://www.interfree.com/anon/index.htm

Arun Mehta, B-69, Lajpat Nagar-I, New Delhi-110024. Phone 6841172, 6849103
http://www.cerfnet.com/~amehta

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-s-asia-it@apnic.net [mailto:owner-s-asia-it@apnic.net]On
> Behalf Of Ahmed Omair
> Sent: 07 July 1999 08:09
> To: S-Asia-IT
> Subject: Re: Indian Government Ban of Net Access to Pakistani Newspaper
> Broken
>
>
> I think it is high time to change those 19th century telegraphic acts
> which were imposed by the colonial British rulers.
>
> Ammendments will not work until the every aspect of telegraphic acts are
> revised and rewritten. As far as state control is concerned, it should
> be there in a way that it is not violating anyone's privacy and with
> providing more liberty towards information access. We live in the era
> where it is very difficult for anyone to block and tamper information.
>
> So we should think of the ways to flood our own information instead of
> blocking others. We should let our people decide.
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