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Did overzealous ISPs take India's web censorship to new levels?

Here's an update to my weekend item on India's moves to censor Google, Facebook and Twitter: Amit Agarwal writes for the Wall Street Journal's "India Real Time" blog that overzealous ISPs have taken India's web censorship to new levels in the latest go-around -- possibly going beyond the mandate of the alleged letter from the IT ministry. Here's an excerpt:

Elsewhere, India correspondent Dean Nelson accuses the Indian government of temporarily blocking the website of the UK's Telegraph newspaper.

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