New Delhi: The government has blocked 250 websites for uploading morphed pictures that had triggered exodus of Northeast people from Karnataka and some other parts, said the Home Ministry. According to reports, the government also blamed networking sites of not co-operating in removing the objectionable content.
On Sunday, government had ordered blocking of 80 more Internet pages and user-accounts on social networking sites including Facebook, Google and Twitter to avoid panic among people of northeastern region living across India.
All these sites were found hosting inflammatory and hateful content, spreading rumours and inciting violence targeting the people from northeast, government sources said.
On Saturday, the government had issued instructions to block 76 Internet sites, which included web-pages and some websites, and had said that bulk of the rumours that triggered panic among people of North-eastern states in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra were sourced from Pakistan.
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