Interesting development. Github was temporarily blocked in China in january because it was used to host politically sensitive information. However, it was later unblocked because the site's economic importance is too great to the Chinese government to warrant a complete block
https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2013/jan/github-blocked-china-...
GitHub blocked in Russia
151–160 of 180 posts
Re: GitHub blocked in Russia
#152Does anyone know of any other information that's politically sensitive to the Russian authorities that was posted on Github? It can't be just this on text on suicide methods, right?
Re: GitHub blocked in Russia
#153I 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…
"it's a vast majority of russian people who voted for Putin and his party and totally support current regime" ... this is why when you win a war, even a cold one ... you rebuild the country at your own expense ...
The worst thing a country can do is piss off the intellectuals/job creators.
Re: GitHub blocked in Russia
#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
> practically every European country censors something on the internet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_and_surveil... doesn't support that
Don't use Wikipedia for citing. Your high school teachers would shame you!
Re: GitHub blocked in Russia
#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
In Russia they seem to force all ISPs to ban specific IP addresses. Obviously, it blocks many stuff, and not just one page. I really HOPE that it'll be resolved soon, because a few months ago we had similar problems with wordpress and even youtube (!), but it was fixed in 1-2 days, because, you know, everyone watches youtube, and blocking half of it makes everyone mad. But github is not what everyone uses, it's just…
I'm travelling frequently to both Russia and Turkey - to avoid having stupid spatial location based limitations I've been using privateinternetaccess.com for more than 6 months now. it's pretty cheap and has gateways all around the world - I recommend it without any hesitation... I especially like having access to streaming video for the shows I watch that is limited to country ip's like the daily show...
See tummybug's message here: ssh -D to setup a local socks proxy is far easier.
Re: GitHub blocked in Russia
#156https://github.com/stevebest/suicide/blob/master/suicide.md sic! There is something about suicides on github in russian.
One more copy of the "want to be funny" text which includes the "start the third world war" advice. But also "chop your own tongue, die from bleeding." The guy who posted it maybe isn't involved with the VPN tunnel sellers but it seems it simply became a meme. People like to do something easy (like just copying a file) and feel good for "provoking" something. At the moment it's just a denial of service for the programmers in Russia. Let's see how long it lasts.
Re: GitHub blocked in Russia
#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
> practically every European country censors something on the internet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_and_surveil... doesn't support that
That page isn't very good. It says that the UK doesn't censor the Internet yet we know that there are two levels of censorship in England: i) the IWF lists - these cover sites that distribute images of child sexual abuse ii) court order - these cover sites like the PirateBay.
3 levels.
The third is the opt-out censorship to protect the children from file sharing, vpn & privacy related info, extreme content (gore), extreme political content (neo-Nazi, maybe even Britian First related but not confirmed), sex related, etc.
By censoring file sharing & privacy related content, it does damange the "path" to becoming a programmer for some people. I know that if these were filtered by default I'd have never learnt how to program.
Re: GitHub blocked in Russia
#158“I understand why he has to do this—to prove he’s a man. He’s afraid of his own weakness. Russia has nothing, no successful politics or economy. All they have is this.”
-Angela Merkel
Re: GitHub blocked in Russia
#159I 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…
> May be for western people it's hard to believe how can it be possible to support this crazy regime. ... Russia is a pure soviet country ...
Drones, mass surveillance, jailing and exiling of whistleblowers, court decisions fixed in advance, rampant racism and sexism, foreign wars for the last 150 years or so, ...
This ain't about however you define the term 'soviet', it's about politico-social power and thus the global trend in increasing violations of civil rights for excuses and legitimizations based on [insert security term here].
Re: GitHub blocked in Russia
#160Russian here.
Guys, let's face it: we have a Great Firewall of Russia now, like in China.
Everyone who wants to continue to work with Github should install TOR, here's how to do it for Linux Mint 17: http://procedural.tumblr.com/post/104233731883
Also, you can discuss it with me on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8695299