164 items blocked online in just 2 days, mostly on court orders

An investigation by The Hindu into the recent blocking of online content related to Arindam Chaudhuri’s IIPM and the hanging of Afzal Guru shows that on February 14 and 15, the Department of Telecom, on orders from various courts, issued as many as three different lists to Internet service providers (ISPs) and telecom service providers (TSPs), asking them to block access to URLs, Facebook pages and YouTube videos. On these two days alone, the number of blockings and takedown items totalled 164. (See chart).

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