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Content and comments published on Groundviews continue to be accessible over RSS.

Further, the website of Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL) is also blocked. It also appears that Vikalpa, our partner site that publishes critical content in Sinhala, is also blocked.

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On the plus side, the temporary block provided us a good excuse to activate and test our emergency site access and content publication protocols, which were successful.Дў0th June 2011: A number of user reports from Sri Lanka indicate that Groundviews is now blocked on Sri Lanka Telecom ADSL broadband Internet connections. Thank you to everyone who responded so quickly and in solidarity. We received a vast number of emails, SMSs and calls supporting our work and our site. As we noted to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) who red-flagged our site block in a press release, it вЂњcould have been a dry run for future action, could have been someone who flipped a switch without being told to do so, could have been a signal to us to shut up.вЂќ

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Full site access was restored towards the end of the day, which we confirmed on our site and social network feeds. However, as suddenly and surprisingly as the block on Groundviews was imposed, it went away. Worried Groundviews was the latest website in Sri Lanka to be subject to an arbitrary block, we immediately activated emergency protocols that included the activation of a mirror site on, alerting our readership through email, Twitter and Facebook of the site block and immediately switching our RSS feeds to a different network architecture that allowed the full content on the site, including comments, to be read even if the SLT ADSL block continued to be in place, and indeed, spread to other ISPs as well. Reader reports also indicated that our partner site Vikalpa and the website of Transparency International Sri Lanka were also inaccessible over SLT ADSL broadband connections at the same time Groundviews was blocked. The founder and co-editor of Groundviews, in New York at the time, could also access the frontside and backend of the site without any problem or delay.

Reader reports from across Sri Lanka confirmed the site could not be reached, as well as the fact that over ISPs like Dialog and Etisalat, the site continued to work fine. Since it began operations in 2006, this was the first time the site was completely inaccessible over an ISP in Sri Lanka. On 20th June, for a number of hours in Sri Lanka, Groundviews was completely inaccesible over Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) ADSL broadband connections. Update, 12.10am, 22nd June: The following was sent out by email today to our local and international readership.

The technical information below still stands, and can in the event of any future block, be used to access site content easily. Update, 7.40pm: As we note in our tweet, we wish the Sri Lankan government made up its mind! This site, Vikalpa and even Transparency InternationalвЂ™s site are now unblocked on SLT ADSL.