Why block sites like gihub instead of issuing DMCA takedown notices? doesn't make sense.
India Orders 32 Websites Blocked, Including GitHub, Archive.Org, Pastebin
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#52I love Indian government statements, they are always so transparently incompetent, inane and corrupt, as are the accompanying actions, like blocking a random PHP project on sourceforge. I guess we'll just never know why they do these stupid things. By the time some bureaucrat has to give a statement all they can get out is terror , ISIS and anti India .
Well, it's not exactly random. If you follow the link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/phorkie/ You can see it's the source code for the same sort of paste text online site they are banning all over the place in the other bans. It seems kind of nuts to ban all source code hosting and clipboard type hosting sites, but clearly they are trying. Wonder what's next, blogs that allow posting comments or signing guestbooks?
That pro-ISIS guy that was recently id'd from Bengaluru was posting on Twitter. Is Twitter banned? Major oversight or perhaps it is random.
This impacts the average person more than any terrorist - such a delusional policy.
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#53The ominous part is that they blocked sites where you can easily share information in bulk.
Is the intention to prohibit such sharing in general? Such efforts are doomed to fail, but that doesn't mean it won't be a hell of a ride.
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#54What exactly are the consequences of banning github on a fallacious, minuscule and largely anti-technological terrorist organization?
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#55I run Cryptbin.com, one of the sites on the banned list. As a result of the ban we have seen our traffic surge, with roughly a 1000% increase in traffic from India today alone.
Interesting to note is that we also own the domain cryptb.in (a TLD from India) and that has not been banned. However, it is merely a redirect so it does not provide an alternative entrance to the site. We use it only for short URL's on public pastes.
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#56Arvind 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…
As crazy as it sounds some HN users defend ISIS. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8808630
Saying that ISIS isn't a terrorist organization doesn't mean that user is defending the organization. Terrorist has become a catch-all term that is used way too broadly (seems to cover any armed force motivated by Islam for many people). ISIS can be an awful organization without consisting of terrorists.
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#57Arvind 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…
I run https://snipt.net , one of the sites listed as being blocked, and I've never received any communication from anyone with the Indian government or ISPs. So they're not proactively doing anything to unblock these sites, as far as I can tell.
"The websites were blocked for hosting content that is pro terrorist group ISIS and not cooperating with government investigations, officials said."
For some strange reason I'm inclined to believe you rather than India's government officials.
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#58Arvind 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…
As crazy as it sounds some HN users defend ISIS. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8808630
He has a point, you know. His claims are:
1) IS is not a terrorist organization, it is an army.
2) IS is better, or at least not worse, than existing middle east governments.
1 seems pretty obvious to me. Sure, they are terrorizing the local population, but lots of governments do that without being labeled terrorists. 2 is more difficult to swallow. Many ME governments are pure garbage, but IS looks a lot worse.
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#59Seems like a good time for bitbucket.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, it's not exactly random. If you follow the link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/phorkie/ You can see it's the source code for the same sort of paste text online site they are banning all over the place in the other bans. It seems kind of nuts to ban all source code hosting and clipboard type hosting sites, but clearly they are trying. Wonder what's next, blogs that allow posting comments or signing guestbooks?
That pro-ISIS guy that was recently id'd from Bengaluru was posting on Twitter. Is Twitter banned? Major oversight or perhaps it is random. This impacts the average person more than any terrorist - such a delusional policy.
Post the offending content as a comment somewhere on the Indian government's own web site. They'll block themselves. Problem solved.