Censorship – News/Documentaries

Medium.com, the long-form blogging platform, is blocked in India for some users by certain internet service providers (ISPs), including Jio and Airtel, for reasons that remain unclear. The platform has attributed this blocking issue to the ISPs.

Medium also clarified that the ongoing disruption is unrelated to the recent AWS outage and confirmed that its website is being blocked at the ISP level. “Medium has no control over blocks that happen on the ISP (Internet Service Provider) level,” the company said, urging affected users to report the issue directly to their ISPs

The Non-Uniform Inaccessibility

When MediaNama tested this “blocking” phenomenon, it observed inconsistent access to Medium across internet service providers in India. The blogging platform remained accessible to some users in Delhi, Gurgaon, Assam, Hyderabad, and parts of Bengaluru, including those on Airtel’s broadband, Hathway, and ACT Fibernet networks. Medium also loaded normally when accessed through Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), suggesting that the website itself is still operational and neither globally restricted nor down.