India Orders 32 Websites Blocked, Including GitHub, Archive.Org, Pastebin

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Post by peter123 » Wed, Dec 31, 2014, 5:35 PM UTC

India Orders 32 Websites Blocked, Including GitHub, Archive.Org, Pastebin
techdirt.com

Re: India Orders 32 Websites Blocked, Including GitHub, Archive.Org, Pastebin

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Post by bdcravens » Wed, Dec 31, 2014, 5:51 PM UTC

If Github is truly blocked, that could be devastating for outsourced work, on both sides of the equation.

Re: India Orders 32 Websites Blocked, Including GitHub, Archive.Org, Pastebin

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Post by thesagan » Wed, Dec 31, 2014, 5:52 PM UTC

bdcravens wrote: post #2

If Github is truly blocked, that could be devastating for outsourced work, on both sides of the equation.

That's my initial reaction. At the very least this is destabilizing, until they can refine how courts may/may not order such blockages in such surprising ways.

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Post by bbarn » Wed, Dec 31, 2014, 5:53 PM UTC

Arvind Gupta, the head of IT Cell, BJP Tweeted: "The websites that have been blocked were based on an advisory by Anti Terrorism Squad, and were carrying Anti India content from ISIS. The sites that have removed objectionable content and/or cooperated with the on going investigations, are being unblocked."

This is bad. archive.org by default should have all sorts of offensive things on it. Pastebin and github should not be responsible for people hosting code they don't like. May as well block google too, I'm pretty sure you can find pro-ISIS sites on there as well.

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Post by confluence » Wed, Dec 31, 2014, 5:53 PM UTC

Someone has made a huge mistake and should be fired over this.

Utterly ludicrous.

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Post by sayhar » Wed, Dec 31, 2014, 5:54 PM UTC

Thanks Narendra Modi.

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Post by nobodyshere » Wed, Dec 31, 2014, 5:55 PM UTC

bdcravens wrote: post #2

If Github is truly blocked, that could be devastating for outsourced work, on both sides of the equation.

They'll find a way to bypass that quite easily, however with the amount of outsourcing based in India it will be an inconvenience for some time. Probably not as much as it would've been if it wasn't NY.

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Post by ToastyMallows » Wed, Dec 31, 2014, 5:55 PM UTC

Is this just a DNS block or do they control all of the ISPs in India? Sorry I'm ignorant about the state of the Internet in India.

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Post by bradleysmith » Wed, Dec 31, 2014, 5:56 PM UTC

This is remedied with a simple VPN, correct?

only justification in that article:

" Arvind Gupta, the head of IT Cell, BJP Tweeted: 'The websites that have been blocked were based on an advisory by Anti Terrorism Squad, and were carrying Anti India content from ISIS. The sites that have removed objectionable content and/or cooperated with the on going investigations, are being unblocked.' "

Re: India Orders 32 Websites Blocked, Including GitHub, Archive.Org, Pastebin

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Post by giis » Wed, Dec 31, 2014, 5:56 PM UTC

I live in Southern part of India, I can access archive.org or github or pastebin from here. I don't think its a complete ban. May be some ISP providers blocking these sites. (Checked in some code to github few minutes back :D ) I hope they will revoke this move in upcoming days.