cyber crimes police in india are considering blocking blogs and certain sites which they believe are being used by terrorists to communicate with each other and it sure is going to create a lot of heat within the blogging community in india,i am not a blogger but i dont think people like al qaeda or their affiliates will be using internet to communicate within themselves because they are intelligent and they know every conversation whether in codes or not can be traced back to them , i just dont think any big fish will use such risks but on the other hand small time al qaeda sympathesizers and wanna wanna be terrorists may have used internet and al qaeda guys are just too smart

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And even if they use the internet, it's highly unlikely that they might use blogging services to communicate with each other. Probably to secretly run a service, I'm not sure.

And what good will blocking these websites in India do? I'm sure they can find a way around a proxy server without wasting much time. It's probably just a rumour or something. Where did you read about this?

i read it in news last night and they have already blocked eblogger.com i did not post it earlier because i was not sure of the site but now i checked it and cannot access eblogger.com ,but as you said anybody who wants to visit can access through proxies ,infact the guy giving interview ,a blogger told how to access

this should be a folish statement, that Terrorist are using Blogg Software to communicate...........Because the meanning of Blog is to share your text with all other public users.............
Terrorits would have their own communication procedure, they are intellegent people and have technical mind.
In my opinion, this dicission will produce so many disadvantage in the Blogger World.........As i am not a Blogger

Haha.
Although, I guess this is going to be a temporary issue concerning the Mumbai blasts and how they've gone about increasing security in any possible way. They just want to reduce the chances as much as they can. I don't blame them, although they might upset a huge population using the website and even the content provider as this would be a huge setback on their revenues. Let's see where this heads.

Your answer have some point of consideration, but this is not a permanent solution of this problem, their are so many trick on net to get enter in some area which is less secure than BIG Servers. Those people who are using their minds in evil thing may have access to those things which a simple don't have.
As you know that all type of terorist (with all type of religions) have beter technology than normal users.

well, this thing is confirmed by not one but many bloggers from India and has its mention in Blogger Buzz too (http://buzz.blogger.com) Well, there are blog hosting sites like blogger, typepad and even geocities...all these free hosting services are blocked in India.

Yes, as others have mentioned that people will find out the ways to access them...almost everyone knows the way to access the blog and continue to fight against this ban.

Well, people are saying that it may be because of Mumbai Blasts but I think it is not because of Mumbai Blasts at all....Govt. may have imposed the ban most likely because people were using these services against the Govt. and some of its acts...for e.g. Reservation in Higher education.

I strongly disagree with this action taken by the Indian government.

But what will they do if we start a blog in our own space. They cannot stop the voice of people from raising their opinions. I was a regulat blogger about the Politics in my State. Now I've am not able to acces it.

Well, they will not be able to put a ban on the site, if you host the site on your own space. However, more information can be read at http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/south_asia/5194172.stm

Well, you can always use anonymouse.org to access any blocked website

thanx Mayank for the Tip now I could continue posting in my Blog.