The experience an Internet user has in India is closely tied to the Internet Service Provider (ISP) they choose. Sections 69A and 79 of the Information Technology Act, 2000, empower the government to issue blocking orders to ISPs and intermediaries. In copyright and trademark dispute-related cases, blocking orders are made public as part of court orders. For HTTPS websites, ISPs look for the Server Name Indication (SNI) field to identify and drop connections to blocked domains before they are established. In practice, Most Indian ISPs rely primarily on DNS blocking as it is cheap to implement and requires no deep packet inspection.

Source: The Hindu April 07, 2026 12:51 UTC