1. Blogs are threats to national security, ban them and the country is safe - thus declared the government of India, the home of the father of Hotmail, IITs, and the mecca of information technology. (Never mind the dozens of workarounds available)

2. Terrorists in India use blogs to plan their attacks - they post their plans, tag relevant keywords, and then ping the entire terrorist empire. Terrorist readers use RSS/atom feeds to receive these latest posts. They leave their strategic inputs to the plans as comments, and also trackback the posts in their own blogs to carry forward the discussion.

3. Yes, India is still the world’s largest democracy. Only that freedom of speech is restricted and censored, because the government has to take good care of its citizens and implement some child-lock software on the Indian webspace as otherwise India’s immature citizens could become severely affected (and become anti-socials and threats to national security) by any kind of pornographic, extremist, or hate literatures they come across on the net.

4. The Indian government is still different from China - it has not done the internet censorship openly, nor has it cared to explain much.

5. The best traffic generation tool for webmasters and bloggers - write something bad about India and get the Indian government to ban your site. Your site traffic will jump twelve-fold and you will still retain your visitors from India too.

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