Shall I blog?

Its kinda strange, to start blogging just after a few days of the infamous "ban" on a few blogging sites in the wake of the Mumbai blasts. The Indian government had momentarily clamped down around 17 blogs apparently deemed dangerous to the country and in the process, inadvertently cut off access to the other innumerable blogs.

"But in an effort to comply, the companies mistakenly blocked hundreds of other blogs hosted on the same servers." reported the TIME

Who's to be blamed - the government or the ISP, I am not sure but this has definitely raised a hundred questions on the rationale and motive behind blocking these blogs. The outcome of the ban had led to a flooding of posts on the net on ways to get around the ban and debating the government’s decision to block blogs.

"Experts believe that the government’s sudden move is aimed at thwarting the use of blogs (online journals) and websites by terrorists and their supporters." reported the Economic Times

"According to sources, the rationale for blocking these websites and blogs is to prevent foreign terrorists from communicating with the cell networks in India." added the Economic Times

Move to block a few of the public blogs is in no way going to help anyway, considering the number of private blogs and all the other ways to publish your thoughts on the net. Well if blocking the blogs would help in bringing down communication between the terrorist, I wonder what would be the fate if terrorists are found using the phones!

Well some consider that this does have some positive aspects too, this might be something that should no longer surprise (or shock?) people and probably expect more in the future too. With all this being said, if things go this way, I wonder if blogging would still be considered as mode to freedom of speech, freedom of expression, and I am not sure if I will get to see this blog when I wake up tomorrow morning. Shall I blog?