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Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

#11

Hasn't GitHub been de jure, if not de facto, banned in India since 2014? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_GitHub#India

Nah works fine on my ISP

That is what “de jure, not de facto” means - the ban is in place, but widely ignored and unenforced

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

#13

For folks looking to bypass these rudimentary DPI blocks, you don't really need a VPN. DoH + one of these should be enough On Windows: - GoodbyeDPI: https://github.com/ValdikSS/GoodbyeDPI ( https://ntc.party/c/community-software/goodbyedpi/8 ) On Mac / Linux: - GreenTunnel: https://github.com/SadeghHayeri/GreenTunnel ( https://www.npmjs.com/package/green-tunnel ) On Android: - Intra: https://github.com/jigsaw-code/in…

How about standing up to the people who implemented the ban and their supporters. I don't understand why we are working around oppression.

How, exactly, do you propose doing that? Do you mean hiring lawyers to try and get the court's decision reversed? Or lobbying to get legislation passed to prevent courts from being able to do things like this in the future? And if the court's decision doesn't get reversed and/or the legislation doesn't pass, what then?

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

#16
post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How about standing up to the people who implemented the ban and their supporters. I don't understand why we are working around oppression.

Technical workarounds and social activism aren't mutually exclusive; given how long the latter can take to achieve results, it's often useful to have the former in the meantime.

By bypassing the block you lessen the need for social activism

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

#17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How about standing up to the people who implemented the ban and their supporters. I don't understand why we are working around oppression.

How, exactly, do you propose doing that? Do you mean hiring lawyers to try and get the court's decision reversed? Or lobbying to get legislation passed to prevent courts from being able to do things like this in the future? And if the court's decision doesn't get reversed and/or the legislation doesn't pass, what then?

Go after the supporters of the people who implemented the ban.

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

#18
A great time to consider self-hosting your Git repositories then?

Like all the inflated hype in the news with the federation 'goobledegook' and 'technobabble' with Mastodon and alternatives with techies spinning up instances, perhaps it is about time that techies use Git properly and consider self-hosting your repositories just like how many techies do with self-hosting Mastodon instances?

I don't think there is an excuse to continue using GitHub or a centralized provider that can easily be censored by governments or GitHub themselves censoring other repositories via its ToS either way; when developers of GNOME, Wireguard, Redox, etc are already able to self-host their own code on their websites.

If they can self-host their own code and federated networks, you (techies) can also do it too.

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

#19
post #12

> Unfortunately, there is no easy way to find out if there is even a court order behind this block not easy, but have you tried filing a RTI application regarding this? https://rtionline.gov.in/

You think this if this is a seesions court order could be found by RTI?
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