What next, also StackOverflow blocked? Next headline would be Russian software development comes to a sudden halt
Edit: downvoted again. My mind is just not made for this hateful community here.
GitHub blocked in Russia
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Re: GitHub blocked in Russia
#12Has an official reason even been given? or is it just a case of "this site is blocked, suck it up, Mother Russia ftw"
According to the article, Github was blocked due to "the placement of text describing the methods of suicide".
Re: GitHub blocked in Russia
#13Official reason for blocking: the site hosts texts describing methods of suicide.
Because Github uses HTTPS only, it's impossible to block only the offending pages, so the whole IP range is blocked.
Github ignored their requests to remove the offending content, so the site remains blocked.
I hope Russian citizens get a big fat boost of morality from blocking Github.
Really, it's not the alcoholism, injustice, corruption, poverty and now economic collapse that causes people to commit suicide in Russia, it's... Github !!
This just shows how braindead the people holding power in Russia are. Oh, and these censorship 'laws' have been adopted by people who've stolen billions and who've built a corrupt police state, which is really scary, because the same people have their fingers on the red button.
Re: GitHub blocked in Russia
#14Has an official reason even been given? or is it just a case of "this site is blocked, suck it up, Mother Russia ftw"
The answer is in the first paragraph. RTFA.
Re: GitHub blocked in Russia
#15Official reason for blocking: the site hosts texts describing methods of suicide. Because Github uses HTTPS only, it's impossible to block only the offending pages, so the whole IP range is blocked. Github ignored their requests to remove the offending content, so the site remains blocked. I hope Russian citizens get a big fat boost of morality from blocking Github. Really, it's not the alcoholism, injustice, corrupt…
Don't worry, practically every European country censors something on the internet (example: (1)) Some level of absurdity is always present as there are almost always some methods to get to the data when the person is determined enough.
1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Unit...
I'm writing from one another West European country. Here even teens share the IP numbers of the video sites banned on the DNS servers of the providers, to type that in the browser's link bar. The providers were served the court orders. It's just on the DNS level at the moment.
Re: GitHub blocked in Russia
#16Interesting... Google Translate did a very decent job on the article, but the comments are all kinds of hilarious. Looks like informal speech is much harder to translate correctly. Although on the second thought it's not surprising.
I guess some Russian reader hand corrected the translation of the article. Otherwise, Google translate is very poor for Russian text. the best example is the translated sentence from the text that caused the ban: "Skopostnye train DURING topmozhenii ppohod more about kilometpa" (...) (The sentence makes advice where the person doing suicide is best to do it, related to trains. Don't correct it and please don't post i…
Why not? It might be inconvenient to read, but it is an article about the censoring of that exact information. Celebrate freedom by translating it properly!
Re: GitHub blocked in Russia
#17Official reason for blocking: the site hosts texts describing methods of suicide. Because Github uses HTTPS only, it's impossible to block only the offending pages, so the whole IP range is blocked. Github ignored their requests to remove the offending content, so the site remains blocked. I hope Russian citizens get a big fat boost of morality from blocking Github. Really, it's not the alcoholism, injustice, corrupt…
Thank goodness my $COUNTRY doesn't do that.
Re: GitHub blocked in Russia
#18Interesting... Google Translate did a very decent job on the article, but the comments are all kinds of hilarious. Looks like informal speech is much harder to translate correctly. Although on the second thought it's not surprising.
IIRC, Google Translate is based on machine learning where, especially for the initial learning phase, they relied on news articles from google news - which are often similar in content and source, but translated by national newspapers. That dataset doesn't contain a lot of informal speech though.
Re: GitHub blocked in Russia
#19What next, also StackOverflow blocked? Next headline would be Russian software development comes to a sudden halt Edit: downvoted again. My mind is just not made for this hateful community here.
It probably won't, but it'll evolve in a different direction, and knowledge from abroad (and from inside Russia) won't be distributed as much as before.
Re: GitHub blocked in Russia
#20I live in Russia (Moscow) and I'm working for leading russian internet company. I'm very annoyed by current political and economical situation. I was so upset by events happening last months that I simply stopped reading russian news at all. And I spent all the time in places like GitHub, Topcoder, English Wikipedia, Hacker News etc. Yesterday, I've tried to make yet another commit to my private repository and suddenly I failed to connect to GitHub. After basic checking of network, I started searching for a news, and I got it.
In a big picture, it's not just russian politicians who tight control over the free internet. The main problem in russia is not just politicians, it's a vast majority of russian people who voted for Putin and his party and totally support current regime.
May be for western people it's hard to believe how can it be possible to support this crazy regime. I can tell you that even top managers from leading russian internet company (from my private conversation with them) dreamed about great russian firewall because in that case, they won't have competitors like Google. Furthermore even IT guys like Putin regime and don't get worry about crazy laws passed against the internet. I assure you in that because many of my colleagues really like Stalin and really like what's happening in Ukraine. Almost all people in Russia really hate western world. They don't care about currency exchange rates and inflation, they care only about imperialism. When Putin made desision about Crimea, and when people totally supported it, I stopped believe in Russia at all.
Russia is a pure soviet country, with pure 100% soviet mindset, vast majority of russian people like idea of self-isolation. This is why Russia has no future as a liberal market-driven country.
And this is why I'm actively looking for a job abroad.