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Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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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

Bypassing the block renders the authoritarian control measures ineffective and/or void. This is an act of resistance in itself. Why do you think bypassing the ban is conforming to authority?

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

#63

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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.

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

I don't know what you mean by this, but if you mean persuading them to change their support, that's a very long timeline, certainly not something that fits into a development sprint...

And if you mean "attack" supporters of the people who implemented the ban, that's a terrible idea.

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

#65

The best thing to do is to create a national git service and make copies of the important git repos, to avoid this problem.

At best that severs collaboration between India and the rest of the world when github isn't blocked.

And who would get to define "important"? Switch that word out with "approved" and you'd have a more accurate picture of what would be present.

One of the benefits (or perhaps "ideals" would be a better word) of open source is that all of it is available to everyone with no authority deciding who can access it.

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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post #56

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…

OP claims it’s SNI based and not DNS based, so switching DNS providers likely won’t do anything.

For me, and many others on Twitter, updating the DNS worked (I used 1.1.1.1). Though I'm not sure why.

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

#69

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Here in China the GFW block any traffic with encrypted SNI.

Hence the "no fallback" point. Bad guys can always block entire IPs, and by not having a fallback to insecure SNI, that's their only choice.

As someone who doesn't want untrusted devices on my network, I'd want to be able to encrypt SNI at my firewall.

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

#70
post #28

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.

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