India is putting in place an advance screening system at the bandwidth landing stations to block individual websites and blogs perceived as threats to national security reports Economic times. The technology to be put in place at the eight landing stations — which bring international bandwidth into the country — will be capable of blocking websites at a sub-domain level, thus saving internet service providers (ISPs) from a sweeping shutdown. DoT has circulated a draft report on Monday on ‘technical measurers for blocking of websites’ to key ministries, security agencies, leading ISPs and the three ILD players who own landing stationsDoT recently called for presentations for equipment for blocking websites. Keeping in mind how governemnts effort to block all blogs last time backfired, GoI is now applyiing more thought than blindly blocking all blogs and websites.

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