On 29.6.2020, we filed a RTI request with the @DoT_India asking them about the banning of 59 mobile applications by the government via a press release.
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On 29.7.2020, we received the following reply from them. As can be seen from their reply, they have failed to answer our queries and make the relevant information available to us.
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Over the past couple of months we have seen a worrying trend emerge of such blocking being done for various websites such as DuckDuckGo.
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…and WeTransfer.
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More recently, websites of three environmental groups were blocked by the government without providing any reasons.
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Such secrecy and opacity in the Blocking Rules is a systemic issue and affects the digital rights of every citizen. We need the govt to cease such opaque blocking and introduce regulatory reforms to increase the transparency and accountability of the govt authorities involved
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