Twits in power

At 11 a.m. on August 20, a file marked 'RESTRICTED / IMMEDIATE' landed on the desk of Department of Telecom (DOT) Director Subodh Saxena at Sanchar Bhawan. It was from the Ministry of Home Affairs and contained a sheaf of documents topped by a terse four-page letter to Internet service providers such as Airtel, BSNL and Tata ordering them to "immediately block access" across the country to a list of 39 YouTube videos, 10 Facebook pages, 21 specific Web pages, including mainstream news reports, and 16 Twitter accounts (including the account of this correspondent).

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