The department of telecommunications has initiated action to unblock four websites after they said that they will not allow posting of Jihadi propaganda and also work with the government to remove such material. The four websites are Weebly, Dailymotion, Vimeo and GithubGist, reports IANS. Earlier the government had ordered to block 32 websites, which includes software code repositories such as Github and Sourceforge, for allegedly posting pro-ISIS messages on them. (We really want to know what kind of propaganda can be shown through lines of code. Even comments in code is stretching it a bit) The DoT invoked Section 69 A of the Information Technology Act, 2000 and in the order said that "the compliance be submitted immediately, failing which the Department may initiate action under Rule 12 of the Information Technology Rules 2009 (Procedure and Safeguards for Blocking of Access of Information by Public). " The BJP's IT Cell national head, Arvind Gupta, on Twitter said: " The websites that have been blocked were based on an advisory by Anti Terrorism Squad, and were carrying Anti India content from ISIS. The sites that have removed objectionable content and/or cooperated with the ongoing investigations, are being unblocked." Here's the thing, it's very unclear on what constitutes as compliance and what these sites had to remove to ensure that their services were unblocked. If the idea was to stem pro-Jihadi messages on these sites, why were entire domains targeted and not just individual pages. The government also hasn't specified any process…
