Centre unblocks ‘The Wire’ website after directing takedown of report
News outlet The Wire on Saturday said that its English website was unblocked by the Union government after a report based on CNN’s coverage of Pakistani claims was taken down amid escalated tensions between New Delhi and Islamabad.
On Friday, internet service providers said that The Wire’s website was “blocked as per the order of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology under the IT Act, 2000”.
Following this, the editors of the news outlet wrote to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, seeking an explanation for the blocking order.
“The ministry’s email, which was received at 9:41 pm on May 9, said that thewire.in was blocked based on blocking request it had received regarding the article,” the news outlet stated.
It added that the Centre had said the website was “blocked due to the technical limitation that in the case of https websites, only full domains can be blocked, and sub-pages cannot be blocked”.
“The Wire was requested to take appropriate action regarding that content and ‘inform the action taken, which would enable the ministry to unblock the website’,” stated the news outlet.
It said it removed the story in compliance with the “unfair demand” and informed the Centre of this at 10.40 pm.
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