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GitHub blocked in Russia
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#22I am glad I don't have to put up (and put in) with censorship shit like this. I wonder if Hacker News is also blocked in some countries?
What does it take to get the privilege to get blocked in Russia and China? Is it enough that someone on HN post things like "Justin Bieber is so cute I wish I was gay" or "the only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage"?
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#23Why are there text files describing methods of suicide on GitHub anyway? From what I can tell they show up in seemingly unrelated repos. Are these just bandwagoning in protest or am I missing something?
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#24Official 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…
I expected something like this, but I thought it would be GitHub blocking Russia, like Google was/is blocking Iran, not the other way around. The situation reminds me of Russia's sanctions against Europe.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
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!
Willing to translate it, but the piece posted here is not comprehensible. Post a direct link and I'll do it.
Also, original: http://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=41171
Edit: it does not look like sth about suicide. Words in order:
High-speed (adj), Train, Customs (on the border), Passage, More, About, (of) kilometer.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
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!
And having HN also banned in Russia? Is the particular banned information really worth it? It's a stupid "try to be funny" "how to do a suicide" text. Really not worth it, see the other comments. The inconvenience such things make to the users of the sites (country wide denial of service(!)) is much bigger than the possibility to change the opinion of some officials.
If you really want to provoke, try with those with which you share the language, get something banned in the UK, as the example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Unit...
I'm sure you can do it and also tell us how UK officials do senseless decisions. In fact, AFAIK, almost every European country has some form of internet censorship.
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#27Holy shmoly! Is wordpress.org the next?
These two can't be compared. I wouldn't mind much them blocking wordpress.org (I rarely visit it and when I do, I can circumvent).
GitHub, or, for the matter SO, will be a big hit.
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#28I 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 sudden…
Welcome to the club. I did the same 20 years ago precisely to the day.
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#29Holy shmoly! Is wordpress.org the next?
>Is wordpress.org the next?
They've blocked YouTube once for a day or two.
btw, russian constitution/article 29/paragraph 5:
"The freedom of mass communication shall be guaranteed. Censorship shall be banned."
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
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!
Willing to translate it, but the piece posted here is not comprehensible. Post a direct link and I'll do it. Also, original: http://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=41171 Edit: it does not look like sth about suicide. Words in order: High-speed (adj), Train, Customs (on the border), Passage, More, About, (of) kilometer.
The author of the text tries to be "funny." One of the options is "Start the third world war. Any red button in some army facility in your vicinity? Are you some president?"
I can't imagine anybody will gain any insights from that "banned" information. kasthack links to the Wikipedia article that was an obvious starting point for the text, to which the "funny" parts were added.