MCMC: It takes three days to block a website

Even then, not every site that was reported to MCMC would be blocked, said MCMC new media department (monitoring and enforcement) director Devi Annamalai.

“First, you have to make a complaint and give enough information. Then, we (a unit within the new media department) will assess each complaint for 72 hours and the report will be handed over to an independent panel in MCMC which will then decide,” she told The Star.