Censorship resistance in India: Indian govt blocks Yahoo! groups on security grounds

Along with the notion of free speech, the right to online freedom of association and peaceful assembly needs much greater emphasis. You shouldn't eliminate the right of all to assemble online via YahooGroups because one group is thought to be using the service for non-peaceful assembly. (YahooGroups and Hotmail are probably the world's two most significant contributions to low cost democratic involvement around the world - why? they are free and people actually use them on a consistent basis to communicate and organize.)

Express your protest. Beat the ban. Write your views to

Mr Arun Shourie Minister of Communications & Information Technology & Disinvestment Ist Floor, Electronics Niketan, Lodhi Road, New Delhi Email : mailto:ashourie@nic.in?subject=
Mr. Ravi Shankar Prasad Minister of Information and Broadcasting E-Mail: mailto:ravis@sansad.nic.in?subject= Phone: +91-11-23384340, 23384782 Fax : +91-11-23782118
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC)

You can also read messages posted to the discussion forum at the Ministry of Information Technology’s Website and post your views there.

In the meantime, users in India wanting to urgently access the groups.yahoo.com domain-based sites despite this unofficial ban should attempt to beat the ban by browsing via: http://www.anonymizer.com/ or may want to visit http://www.proxy4free.com/. The second option may involve changing some of your PC settings.