Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India • Hacker News Board

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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Post by pjc50 » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 3:16 PM UTC

themitigating wrote: post #17

HideousKojima wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

There's probably quite a lot of them. Modi-style authoritarianism is extremely popular in India.

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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Post by josephcsible » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 3:16 PM UTC

> ACT is using SNI-sniffing to block raw.githubusercontent, unlike most other blocks, which are DNS based.

This is why TLS ECH can't come soon enough, and why there should be no fallback if the browser and server both support it.

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 3:17 PM UTC

themitigating wrote: post #17

HideousKojima wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

[deleted]

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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Post by rvz » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 3:21 PM UTC

themitigating wrote: post #16

saghm wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Or just self-host your repositories and don't deal with centralized Git services given that techies here are hyping around how 'easy' it is to spin up Mastodon instances.

Should be even easier to self-host a Git repository then, just like a website.

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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Post by nyolfen » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 3:23 PM UTC

themitigating wrote: post #16

saghm wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

your goal should be making these impossible to enforce, social activism is not an end in itself

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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Post by xvilo » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 3:23 PM UTC

ignoramous wrote: post #3

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…

Don't forget about the IPv6 proxies floating around

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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Post by themitigating » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 3:23 PM UTC

pjc50 wrote: post #21

themitigating wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

There's probably quite a lot of them. Modi-style authoritarianism is extremely popular in India.

And it will continue to be if people ignore things like this. In a democracy the voters are responsible for the actions of the leaders

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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Post by yunohn » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 3:24 PM UTC

The insane irony of this given the sheer number of Indians working in software/IT and using GitHub and contributing to India’s GDP.

You’d think that the Gov/ISP/Courts, somebody would put GitHub on a Do-Not-Block list and stop this madness.

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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Post by Ayesh » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 3:24 PM UTC

ignoramous wrote: post #3

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…

> On Android:

Most phones nowadays should have DoT support built-in nowadays.

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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Post by jrochkind1 » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 3:26 PM UTC

Ayesh wrote: post #29

ignoramous wrote: post #3

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…

> On Android: Most phones nowadays should have DoT support built-in nowadays.

I don't know what "DoH" or "DoT" are.