Google to Start Country-Specific Censorship for Blogs

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Google planning to redirect all the traffic of it self hosted blogs(http://blogger.com) to country specific URLs, which will help over censorship of the blogs.

The details queries related to redirection can be found “Why does my blog redirect to a country-specific URL?” explaining that Google is using the method to limit the impact of censored content.

Readers will be redirected to sites with their own countryโ€™s domain name when they try to visit blogs recognized as foreign, as determined by their IP addresses.

“Over the coming weeks you might notice that the URL of a blog youโ€™re reading has been redirected to a country-code top level domain, or “ccTLD.” For example, if youโ€™re in India and viewing [blogname].blogspot.com, you might be redirected [blogname].blogspot.in. A ccTLD, when it appears, corresponds with the country of the readerโ€™s current location.”

Eg: One of my old blog http://stuff4mobiles.blogspot.com/ was redirected to http://stuff4mobiles.blogspot.in

If you would like to see a non-affected page, you can direct to http://stuff4mobiles.blogspot.com/ncr (NCR stands for โ€œno country redirectโ€), which places a short term cookie that temporarily prevents geographical redirection.

Google is of the opinion that having local TLD will help in freedom of speech and expression.

As goes my comment, I don’t see any impact on viewing the content, What is your opinion on this?

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