Truth Behind Princess Kimberley

Well it seems some of our daily newspapers have goofed up bits of information regarding the on-going battle between Desi-Bloggers and DoT.

Apparently one of the blocked blogs, princesskimberley.blogspot.com was reported as princesskimberley.com. I just don’t get this; I mean how hard is it to copy information off blogs who have covered the story (in a much better fashion) and print it – obviously mentioning the source/sources of their details.

Ace blogger Patrix informs us that our DoT and our government have all the justified reasons to block out Princess Kimberley as she could be a bad influence on many of our young women bloggers and blog readers. A look at the concerned blog, it is in fact a two-year-old abandoned blog by some Kimi who happens to be depressed about her life and has just two posts.

It would be great if DoT could just give us a few pointers as to why they found Ms. Kimberley so offensive and a threat on the lines of national security –

1. Was it because she wrote only two posts (a good example of a bad blogger)

2. Was it the minute details of her depressed life that could possibly translate her as a suicide bomber

3. They just don’t like the name Kimberley and would have spared her if she was named Sonia, Priyanka, Rabridevi and the likes.

This just shows the efficiency of our DoT and our government. It’s sad that the officials, who have made the ‘black list’, can’t even make a proper use of Google. Even my 8 year-old cousin knows how easy it is to find desired information/research using various search engines.

Undoubtly the whole plan of scraping out blogs and website was completely stupid right from the start, what makes the whole episode a perfect script for a comic movie is the fact that our DoT not for once took into account that users could still access many blogs by connecting to them through third-party Web sites.

I seriously feel that the government should actually sack all the employees behind this move (how can such incompetence be ignored). Plus as they say, ‘One bad mango can spoil the rest’ therefore we can’t afford to have such morons running our Technology/Telecommunicaton departments – Do we?

On the other hand Indian Express points out some of the restricted blogs and websites – many of these are no longer active.

pajamaeditor.blogspot.com

exposingtheleft.blogspot.com

princesskimberly.blogspot.com

commonfolkcommonsense.blogspot

mypetjava.mu.nu

thepirateco.us

hinduhumanrights.com/hindufocus.html

rahulyadav.com

dalitstan.com

macker-old.com

merrimusings.typepad.com

Plus you could visit this link and check out posts put up by various bloggers against the blocking of blogs in India.

Hopefully some sense will prevail from all this and our government will finally start acting on issues that truly requires their attention.

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The Indian Ban – to clear up some issues…

OK, I’ve been reading stuff about the ban and there is a lot of confusion about some of the sites under the ban order. So for those who don’t know this already (which is probably most people, but not regular readers of this site or the oth…

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[...] OK, I’ve been reading stuff about the ban and there is a lot of confusion about some of the sites under the ban order. So for those who don’t know this already (which is probably most people, but not regular readers of this site or the other blocked US sites). First, Merri Musings: merrimusings.typepad.com USED TO BE the blog for Merri. Merri moved off Typepad months ago, and some scumbag snatched the URL up for porn crap. After a lot of complaints to Typepad about it, they deleted the X-rated blog that was using the merrimusings.typepad.com URL (it was only there for maybe a week, anyway). Since then, the URL has been 404. That’s why nobody can get to it, ban or no ban. The ban was on a defunct URL! Second, Princess Kimberley: Princess Kimberley (not Kimberly) used to have a blog at princesskimberley.blogspot.com. Apparently she also deleted her blog and Blogspot account, and it was snatched up by some “Tony” clown, who’s got a few other empty blogs stashed away. Princess Kimberley is someone totally different from “Princess Kimberly” or this “Tony” guy. I haven’t seen her around commenting in quite some time, but some of us in certain blogging circles know who she is and know of her old blog. Her blog was, like mine and countless others, anti-Islamofascist (only hers was more hardcore than mine, to say the least). Next: Common Folk Using Common Sense. That’s another one that used to be hosted at Blogspot. As most people have noticed, it’s a Korean(?)-language blog now at CFCS’ old URL (commonfolkcommonsense.blogspot.com). Scroll over the links–they all point to a Korean site with subdomains. Looks like a spammer/splogger, who just snatched up the old URL because there were a lot of other sites linking to it already. (Splog has been reported and flagged to Blogger now). CFCS is now hosted at its own domain. My Pet Jawa (aka The Jawa Report): It’s not JAVA, it’s JAWA. Like in Star Wars. Most people seem to have figured this out, but some still are reporting “mypetjava.” I’m sure all of us American blogs that are banned know exactly why we’re banned. It all comes down to one post at one blog (not at this blog) that had pictures with our blog URLs on the pictures. In the case of the first three listed above, the Typepad/Blogspot URLs were correct at the time of the post, but that was long ago. I have no idea if their current (or mypetjawa.mu.nu) sites are actually banned or not. At this point I have no idea WHO is still banned–apparently I’m still banned, although I was told by someone before that I was un-banned. I wish I could get worked up about this, but as it is, I never got much traffic from India anyway. I doubt any of us (Americans) did. That’s not the issue anyway; it’s the dhimmitude that disgusts me, and of course the suppression of freedom. I’m just a lot more concerned at the moment with the Mumbai terrorist attacks, when it comes to events in India right now. I feel kinda silly writing about an internet ban when that kind of thing is still being investigated, you know? (Not to mention other things going on in the world.) I’m just writing this because others have written about it and the bad URLs are leading people on wild goose chases, but this will likely be the last thing I write about it. I’d sure like to know how this whole issue resolves, though. Here’s an interesting article from March about Indian secularists’ appeasement of Indian Muslim activists. Kinda makes you wonder if the ruling secularists will ever get to the bottom of the Mumbai terrorist bombings. If they tend toward coddling terrorists, I’m not surprised at the internet block at all. [...]

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[...] Apparently some of us were very much off the mark over Princess Kimberleyâ€™s identity and the reason why her blog was black-listed by DoT. [...]

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Mitesh
Jul 19th, 2006 at 1:59 pm | #

strange but I dont see any posts on princess kimberly blog. and the blogger’s name is tony, not Kimi and he has a total of 4 linked blogs, with not a single post anywhere. I am in US right now; since you seem to be looking at the blog from India, I wonder if they are redirecting you or showing you some other page.
And yes, princesskimberly.com leads to a non-existent page with address: http://www.geocities.com/princess_leia_rebel_leader

Njus
Jul 19th, 2006 at 5:10 pm | #

ban will be lifted in 48 hours

quote:
“DoT took up the matter but, because of a technological error, ISPs went beyond what was expected of them, resulting in ‘the unfortunate blocking of all blogs.”

ramani
Jul 20th, 2006 at 12:15 am | #

I wonder how they picked these URLs. Maybe they just googled some random text and did inky, pinky, ponky

Mitesh
Jul 21st, 2006 at 3:28 pm | #

ok found out that there are 2 blogs:
http://princesskimberly.blogspot.com/ and
http://princesskimberley.blogspot.com/
The one you have linked is incorrect.

Saakshi O. Juneja
Jul 21st, 2006 at 4:30 pm | #

Mitesh – Thanks. Have fixed it up.

Saakshi O. Juneja
Jul 23rd, 2006 at 5:58 am | #

Mitesh – You need to check this out.

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