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The Indian judiciary is independent, much to the chagrin of the BJP whenever rulings go against them. A court-ordered block has little if anything to do with the BJP.
Can't the BJP assign new judges that flavor them? Authoritarian governments othen do that, like the one in Hong Kong.
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#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Indian judiciary is independent, much to the chagrin of the BJP whenever rulings go against them. A court-ordered block has little if anything to do with the BJP.
Can't the BJP assign new judges that flavor them? Authoritarian governments othen do that, like the one in Hong Kong.
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You bypassing the block remedies the situation for you. The thing is, not everyone is a super techy like you. The problem is everyone else who isn't you having access restored. While F you, got mine is tempting, you gotta remember the follow through. Always punch up.
Why do you assume those who know how to bypass the block won't share it? Contrary to your expectations, people don't exist as isolated entities in vacuum.
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Why do you assume those who know how to bypass the block won't share it? Contrary to your expectations, people don't exist as isolated entities in vacuum.
You're assuming that even if the method of bypassing it is widely available everyone can figure it out or has access to help
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How about standing up to the people who implemented the ban and their supporters. I don't understand why we are working around oppression.
What would be your favorite way of standing up to the people who implemented the ban and their supporters?
Whatever can be done obviously
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OP claims it’s SNI based and not DNS based, so switching DNS providers likely won’t do anything.
> OP claims it's SNI based and not DNS based, so switching DNS providers likely won’t do anything. All the apps listed do get past most rudimentary SNI-based blocks, incl GoodbyeDPI which is pretty sophisticated. One still needs DoH because (unencrypted) DNS is the weakest link.
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#148Pointing to cloudflare dns circumvents the issue for now. move away from ISP DNS to 1.1.1.1 to temporarily solve the issue.
Some ISPs still tamper with DNS traffic irrespective of which DNS server they're to/from. githubusercontent.com has no DNSSEC, so it's not tamperproof.
Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India
#149The fact that people rely on GitHub, even when it is based on git, which is free and distributed software, shows how easy it is for big companies to force users into their closed software.
I don’t use GitHub because it provides me with just Git. I use it because it’s provides hosted storage, free CI, issue management, code search across millions of repos, releases/downloads.
I've had a project shut down by Github because of petty ( and unfounded ) content flagging by a competitor. It took a week to get a human involved and it almost killed the project. I will never again put the fate of a product in the hands of someone else's arbitrary, black-box algorithms.
Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India
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BJP isnt trying to "censor" "dissent" here, its just one ISP blocking it for some unspecified reason
its not that deep, everything you see on reddit isnt real, you can calm down.