Free Internet!

Hello buddies! Since 50's Internet has evolved at various level. From CERN project to global infrastructure, internet has turned our lives to new era. The developers of World Wide Web decided to keep the project free. They wish no one have control over the network worldwide. They created free and independent environment for sharing ideas, concepts, data, etc. Internet has transcended boundaries and reached billions of lives. Internet is like a nation without boundaries. But with present day internet is hogged with restrictions and filters placed by state agencies.

The recent notification by Department of Telecommunication (DoT) of India to block 32 url by all the Internet Service Licencees has raised many questions. The prominent of them are dailymotion, pastebin, vimeo, github. The reason sited was these websites were used for propagation of ISIS agenda. The question is only these website are the gateway to get in India?! What about twitter, facebook? Why not ban Google Search which can bring in any information from any part of the world! Just blocking few url will not stop them. But it hurts genuine users of the services. As internet has become part of the lives for many, blocking their favorite sites will turn them against the nodal agencies.

What if terror suspects reach their audience through new sites than the blocked urls? One day we will have to block the entire internet traffic entering India. DoT has found only short time fix with these blocked urls. But did harm in long run to the Indian Community. Vast amount of technical community uses pastebin, github. Internet technology experts who rely mostly on these services are hurt. Their business disturbed. 

On the other hand, the blocked urls could be access in Virtual Private Networks (VPN). The highly encrypted VPN will find it way to reach these services. Either it may be genuine users or terror suspects, all can get hands on those services with secure VPN. How the government going to deal with it? Blocking is just a short term fix but going to hurt software developing community if they continue blocking pastebin and github.