Blocking access to websites is a common practice by governments in different countries. Somehow they fail to realize that there are thousand routes to a website and millions of users are smarter that a handful of government IT department workers. For example, very recently the Indian government decided to invade the personal rights and privacy of individuals (probably based on very vague and misunderstood ethical or cultural considerations) and went ahead to block a number of porn websites. Protests ensued and they revoked it within days. Continue reading Lantern: unblock websites
Tag: net neutrality
uProxy: share access with friends
Invasion on net neutrality is nothing new today. ISPs want to package the internet as they want and feed it to you. However, thanks to computer scientists and developers around the world, solutions are falling in place. Continue reading uProxy: share access with friends
Defend net neutrality in India
Zuckerberg’s initiative Internet.org has posed a great threat to net neutrality in India. On the surface it comes with good intentions, but this is a clever business strategy wrapped in humanitarian honey. It’s a digital quota system favouring only 38 websites. Continue reading Defend net neutrality in India
