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Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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Post by sanghi_mama »

pjc50 wrote: post #21
themitigating wrote: post #17

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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 they are very powerful on the internet as well as migrants in western countries of the majority so-called-majority-religion-of-india support them. Hate speech on the internet against non-Hindus is common in the country and even here they are trying hard to remove my comments fearing many people will see their true faces. It's only social media and whatsapp that's required by you-know-which-majority-religion terrorist accounts to spread venom and hate speech against other communities. source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-61090363

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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Post by sanghi_mama »

yunohn wrote: 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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Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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Post by themitigating »

ssnistfajen wrote: post #160
themitigating wrote: post #154

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Again, it can be exclusive. People who are able to bypass the restriction might not feel the need to fight it

Why do you feel the need to keep inventing false premises? You literally have no point here.

What is a false premise? You're saying that it's not possible a person who disagrees with this block won't fight to overturn it if he can find a work around?

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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Post by philippejara »

jhoelzel wrote: post #168
philippejara wrote: post #120

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All those things can be painlessly done with a vpn. I'm not saying people wouldn't have to change, but to affect the economy as gp is trying to make it sound well, doubt it would even make a rounding error.

because you are assuming that everybody immidiatly knows how to set up one of those. Imagine how many juniors cant, and imagine how many of those might life in india. And even if you ignore that fact, can you imagine the hit the gdp will take if thousands of companies need to setup vpns?

>Imagine how many juniors cant, and imagine how many of those might life in india.

I can't imagine a junior developer not being able to set up a vpn in 2023, and if by some bizarre turn of fate he isn't able to he is a junior and other people will just tell him how to do it.

>And even if you ignore that fact, can you imagine the hit the gdp will take if thousands of companies need to setup vpns?

No? vpn's are cheap and honestly I doubt most of the companies need to read github code*, and those that do well just use the vpn. Hell you can even not pay for it but use opera's free built in VPN, use Tor on clearnet as a VPN of sorts, all for effectively zero cost.

*:we're talking gdp here.

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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Post by bbbbb5 »

phyphy wrote: post #156
bbbbb5 wrote: post #147

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Wow, I guess some right-wing anti-immigration lunatics flagged my other comment. But I will repeat it, emigration from India is a very good thing.

I actually don't care about it but how would that be a good thing?

How could it not be? More labour for the rest of us. Economically the benefits of immigration are unquestionable, despite scaremongering by the Western right.

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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Post by bastardoperator »

nottorp wrote: post #153
bastardoperator wrote: post #116

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If I have to update my Jenkins server because I moved from one Git provider to another, I have to point my existing integrations to my new git provider. That's the opposite of being locked in, and just a fact of the matter.

That sounds like it's your Jenkins server not GitHub's.

Yes, it's an integration the repo and users rely on. Any integration that is using a specific git URI will need to be updated. This means new keys, access tokens, and configurations within the integration will need to be updated. That's not a simple process.

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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Post by dang »

bbbbb5 wrote: post #147
potamic wrote: post #97

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Much hostility. You know this will cause more emigration right?

Wow, I guess some right-wing anti-immigration lunatics flagged my other comment. But I will repeat it, emigration from India is a very good thing.

Users flagged your sibling comment, no doubt because it was unsubstantive and arguably flamebait. That's against several of the site guidelines; this one, for example:

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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Post by distcs »

zakember wrote: post #114
potamic wrote: post #93

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What do you mean blown out of proportion? OP has mentioned that it's a partial block and shared a source showing multiple people facing the same issue.

> What do you mean blown out of proportion? It is on the HN front page :)

> It is on the HN front page :)

This does not answer the question you are replying to.

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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Post by bbbbb5 »

dang wrote: post #178
bbbbb5 wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, I guess some right-wing anti-immigration lunatics flagged my other comment. But I will repeat it, emigration from India is a very good thing.

Users flagged your sibling comment, no doubt because it was unsubstantive and arguably flamebait. That's against several of the site guidelines; this one, for example: " Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. " https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

An user asked me "You know this will cause more emigration right?" How is an affirmative answer supposed to be flamebait or unsubstantive? I would definitely love to hear those arguments.
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