munna2009 (Super-Mod! + Sravanthi Love): Through four (1, 2, 3, 4) directives to Internet Service Providers between 18 August and 21 August, the department of telecom has blocked numerous web pages on concerns that communal tensions were being fanned in the wake of the unrest following violence in the border districts of Assam. After protests in Mumbai on August 18 turned violent, the government had said that hate content was being spread through the internet by groups in Pakistan. *
23-08-12 - 09:35:38

munna2009 (Super-Mod! + Sravanthi Love): The directive to block 16 twitter handles were part of notification sent out by the communications ministry on August 20. Only one of the twitter handles—@PM0India (the digit zero instead of alphabet O)—bears resemblance to the prime minister's official account 'PMOIndia'. *
23-08-12 - 09:36:11

munna2009 (Super-Mod! + Sravanthi Love): The Twitter accounts of two journalists—columnist Kanchan Gupta and television journalist Shiv Aroor—are among those whose Twitter accounts have been blocked.
ET accessed the government directive of blocking these twitter handles. *
23-08-12 - 09:36:54

munna2009 (Super-Mod! + Sravanthi Love): The directives only say that it has been decided to block these accounts. It does not quote any sections of the IT Act 0r any other law under which the decision to block the websites has been taken. *
23-08-12 - 09:37:22

munna2009 (Super-Mod! + Sravanthi Love): The other twitter handles that have been blocked include Dosabandit (@dosabandit), Eagle Eye (@eagleeye47), Twitanci (Anil Kohli) - @anilkohli54, Sangparivar.org (@sanghpariwar), Amit Paranjape (@apranjape), Sumeet (@sumeetcj), Dr Pravin Togadia (DrPravinTogadai), Panchajanya (@i_panchajanya), two accounts of barbarian Indian (@barbarindian), scamsutra (@scamsutra), Ekakizunj (@ekakizunj) and redditindia (@redditindia) *
23-08-12 - 09:41:03