The blogger.com and other blogs are working again, and may be other sites also.
That was the mistake of internet service providers association of India.

The govt. want to block sites as a protective measures against rumours and communial riots..

The government told the service providers of India to block only few webpages but they blocked whole sites.

So the ban is away and u can enjoy blogging..

I don't think the government should be allowed to choose what its citizens are allowed to view on the internet...

As for countries like China, these problems still exist...

now the ban on the blogging sites has been lifted and now we Indians are free to express ourselves in our blogs.

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

If they ban blogging communities its one thing. But how will they stop people of putting up blogs on their own domains?? Someone could start an indian "not-blog" website and eventually they'd get civil disputes over the definition of a blog. Soon they'd be blocking youtube, forums (like Trap17 even!) and photo logging websites like imagefiles and photobucket. They're making a big mistake I think.

hmmm i dont think alqueda or terrorist are so dumb. may be the indian government. with the mobile industry booming and the internet proxy sites availble there is alwasy a way to communicate. be this or that. Its only unless the govt monitors with tougher cyber laws and guards it hardly useless to stop them.

I dont think that is neccesarily true.
Im sure you remember the massive airline scare aftter those plans to blow up the planes were found on the internet.

And if youthink about it, there are millions of sites out there, there is not a great risk, that if you save an encrypted file to the internet, that it will be found, and un encrypted.

so i think it is possible that such organisations could be using the internet.

But i dont think banning will have much effect, as they will find another way, of comunicating over the internet, if they are really that determained to use the internet.