The country of Sri Lanka a large island just off the southern tip of India has agreed to allow the website Sri Lanka Mirror to be the first website of five to be unblocked by the country’s internet service providers. The website came back into compliance with government rules late Thursday after removing links to already blocked websites in the country. The ruling to allow the website back online came through an agreement reached in Sri Lanka Supreme Court.
Beyond just linking to websites back in November the Sri Lanka Mirror (srilankamirror.com) four other websites including www.lankaenews.com, srilankaguardian.com, paparacigossip9.com, and www.lankawaynews.com were blocked by the government media minister. The websites were charged with character assassination and violating individual privacy.
Sri Lanka itself has had a long history of internet and other media in general censorship. Not to mention the amount of government control involved regulating content providers. It should be noted that the country requires registration of your website with the government if you want to run one in the country. Reporters without borders organization also has the country listed on a listed on its list of countries that monitor there citizens online in some form. Sri Lanka dropped off the lists in 2010 but was re-added just this year to this lists.
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