How bad is internet censorship in India?

[sachkris]

When I open some websites, it is redirected to a webpage with just the following message :

“Your requested URL has been blocked as per the directions received from Department of Telecommunications, Government of India. Please contact administrator for more information.”

Sadly, the webpage for which I'm getting this message is : http://hugo.pereira.free.fr/index.php which is a harmless site whichjust maintains a list of open source softwares.

The warning message appears to come from an IP (182.79.218.37) which belongs to the ISP Bharti Airtel. This IP seems to be running "Netsweeper filtering service". A casual google search about this filtering software suggested that it is mainly used by authoritarian governments previously.

I'm wondering why such websites are being blocked? What other websites are being blocked? Why is there no transparency of the policy by which content is blocked?

[arunagarwal]

I can access this page from a Indian VPN server

My server is at https://www.e2enetworks.com