Now this is just sad...

I've one web addiction, only one (besides eBay) - and now the Indian government (of all things) is denying me access.
I didn't mind the filtering in Iran, had expected it and worked around it - but even in Iran I could freely access PostSecret.
(Yeah, go ahead, click the link...I can't!)
However, because it's a blogspot blog it's on the list of untouchables deemed immediately inaccessible by Indian politics. Also on the list are all Geocities blogs and Type Pad blogs.

According to an article at BoingBoing:
"the Indian government has decided to censor blogs and refused to explain why...Dr Gulshan Rai, director of CERT-IN, the only body authorised to issue directives to ISPs [is quoted as saying] 'Somebody must have asked for some sites to be blocked. What is your problem?'"

It's not enough that we go without electricity at random intervals? And if they've time and money to manage censorship in India why can't they manage the sewer systems here so that they don't overflow into the streets, or institute a central garbage collection system?
What's my problem??? My problem is I thought this was a free country.

I'm shocked to learn that this place I've lived for WAY too long now has joined China in efforts to keep people from accessing information.

Anyone want to send me a screencapture of the site, like every Sunday, for the next six months?
Pretty please...?

UPDATE: Thanks to the quick spread of information by the media I read about a site that unblocks filtered blogs with images - ha ha! India has since given some reasons for blocking the blogs - most of which center around the hate speech that proliferates on so many blogs, noting in particular the plethora of anti-Muslim sentiments.
I don't support or agree with anyone who has anti-anyone-else statements to make when they're based on petty things like faith or ethnicity, but I think blocking freedom of expression, or freedom to access that expression, is even more dangerous.

Anyway, I've gotten my PostSecret fix - thank you very much!