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electric wire News Portal said in a statement on Saturday (May 10, 2025) that the orders were issued on its website shortly after contacting the Ministry of Information’s Review Department and broadcasting about its website. As a prerequisite for deleting the site, the site said the government urged it to delete its published articles based on reports from U.S. publications CNN.
When the site deletes the article, it points out the original article CNN The story is still available and says it will challenge the decision. The blockage of the website has been condemned by several news organizations, including the Indian Press Club, the Digipub Foundation and the Indian Editors Association.
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“I am restricted to note that the procedure your ministry should follow is about the first issue of notice about the news story, and then give electric wire There is an opportunity to comment to the Inter-Departmental Committee until this way, if the IDC insists on deleting the story, then if we remain unqualified, you can take an extreme step to block our website,” Siddharth Varadarajan, founding editor of the site, wrote to the government.
Mr Varadarajan refers to the establishment of the government led by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting to rule the blocking order.
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“This obstructed story was published on May 8 at 0347 on May 8, and was widely used since CNN at least 12 hours ago, and his story has been extensively in India since then. I see why the government doesn’t want our story to be deleted and see it as an emergency that it’s not more than 24 hours after publication, without even notifying our website, and our entire website says Varadara on the entire website.
“Short after we sent this reply, MIB officials told us that an order had been sent to the Internet service provider to dismiss the site,” Mr Varadarajan said. “However, although more than 12 hours have passed since then, readers on various networks in different parts of the country still have no access to the website of the wire.”
Most modern websites use a secure socket layer, represented by HTTP in their URLs, to prevent intercepting their traffic. This technology makes it impossible to view and access the specific content under the website. However, a complete website can be blocked instead of a single page.
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