(With inputs from Nikhil Pahwa) The Indian government appears to be looking to address one of the many workarounds for website blocking, it appears: Business Standard reports that they're planning to summon Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to look into the blocking of over 500 url's that they haven't been able to block, because the sites have either secure-encrypted headers, or were sourced from multiple locations through content delivery networks. We're not sure of why there might be an issue in blocking websites delivered through content delivery networks, but the rationale behind not blocking https websites is quite simple: orders for blocking of websites, at least from what we've seen, are typically for http URLs, not https URLs, and the approval, at least when it comes from the court, is typically for one of the two. Usually, when an http link is blocked, users can use https to access it, even if the site doesn't have encryption. It's worth noting that while the government appears to be focusing on blocking websites and URLs, there appears to be no focus on increasing transparency. Parts of the web are being blocked for Indians, and we don't know what all has been blocked, why it's been blocked, and if your site has been blocked, you won't know how to get that block removed. The lack of transparency is worrying, authoritarian, and is a situation that is rife for misuse. Recent Government's Internet Blocks: Recently, Care.org, the website of the non-profit organisation has been blocked by two ISPs, Vodafone (Bangalore)…
