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Offtopic: I really don't get the point of the blogspot.com domain now redirecting to blogspot.com.TLD for every Blogger blog.

I actually find it a little bit annoying.

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It limits censorship. If an Indian or European court censors some content, it will only disappear from the local tld.

http://support.google.com/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&an...

Does it? I can access all the country specific domains:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/never-ending-quest...

http://googleblog.blogspot.it/2012/06/never-ending-quest-for...

http://googleblog.blogspot.de/2012/06/never-ending-quest-for...

Screws up linking imo: no canonical URL.

It acts like a proxy then. Anyone who knows, can read anything in times of censorship.

That's the whole point, content only disappear from one ccTLD, but is still accessible from other places. It's similar to how the censorship works for the search engine, it's usually limited to one ccTLD (e.g. nazi censorship only affects google.fr).

So the government is expected to say "well we can only block access to our TLD, so let's ignore the others?"

It is more like the defendant shows that e.g. french users access the .fr domain and it would be disproportionate to block other TLDs (especially if it is legal elsewhere). (At least in the court cases I've seen in France)

(btw it is not usually a government, but a court asking for this).

It would be pretty bad if that wasn't the case, then everything would be censored to the least common denominator (India + Europe + Middle East + ...). Or companies wouldn't be able to operate in those countries.

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