Why stop at the domain level? India should block all *.com traffic until Verisign takes down all objectionable content.
India Orders 32 Websites Blocked, Including GitHub, Archive.Org, Pastebin
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Re: India Orders 32 Websites Blocked, Including GitHub, Archive.Org, Pastebin
#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I have no problem whatsoever with removing offending content from Snipt. I regularly remove and ban users who post illegal or otherwise inappropriate content on the site. If they contact me, I'll happily remove anything even remotely "pro terrorist group ISIS", but as mentioned, I've received no such requests (and I don't proactively review private snippets for offensive content unless it's reported to me).
That may not be in your best interest, lefally. Pro-active moderation makes it very hard to argue safe harbor status.
Not true. If you're alerted to offending material and you remove it, you haven't broken safe harbor status what-so-ever. Otherwise YouTube, DropBox, Instagram and countless other sites would be dead.
The only way you break safe harbor is if you know of offending material, eg by a filter or having been alerted to it, and leave that material in place. If you run content filters (such as at the point of upload), then you have to be more careful.
The difference being between after-the-fact moderation and pre-screening. If you pre-screen you take on a greater burden of risk, in terms of copyright holders being able to argue you knew about something and didn't remove it, or should have known.
Re: India Orders 32 Websites Blocked, Including GitHub, Archive.Org, Pastebin
#113Arvind 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…
Strange that they're blocking software rather than websites. E.g. the github block says "gist-it" next to it, which implies they maybe wanted to block https://github.com/robertkrimen/gist-it ? There's also http://atnsoft.com/atnsoft.com/textpaster/ blocked and http://sourceforge.net/projects/phorkie/ which is described as "Self-hosted pastebin software written in PHP. Pastes are editable, may have multiple files and…
likely gist.github.com
Re: India Orders 32 Websites Blocked, Including GitHub, Archive.Org, Pastebin
#114I'm not a India software industry expert, so excuse me if this sounds like a dumb question.
Isn't it a terrible economic idea for India to block access to Github? I thought India was really big into software engineering?
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#115If Github is truly blocked, that could be devastating for outsourced work, on both sides of the equation.
Those who use Github knows how to bypass the ban.
I don't think it's helpful to consider this ban a non-issue because it's
easy to bypass. It's easy to bypass this time, next time it may be a
bit harder, depending on what the government orders ISP's. And there probably will be "next time", depending on the effects of all this.
Also, someone else here asked about legality of bypassing the ban, that is a good question I'd like to see answered, even though I think we all know the answer to that one.
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#116Yes, this move is an over reaction. Especially, banning archive.org... India was just hit with a terrorist attack in Bangalore very recently. The techdirt article should mention this part. http://www.ndtv.com/article/cheat-sheet/bangalore-bomb-blast...
And the response there is just as lame: "The Home Minister today asked the state government to install CCTVs in all key places in the city." And they're going to ask restaurants to close at 1am on New Year's... As if that'd accomplish anything.
They might have specific intel on something. Just as possibility...
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#117How I wish the Indian top brass gets to read this thread! The new government came with promises of getting rid of bureaucratic hurdles... and now this.
The guy who made this list ofcourse didn't have the guts to put Facebook, Twitter on it because the Prime Minister / PM Office actively uses those tools to reach out to the people.
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#118Re: India Orders 32 Websites Blocked, Including GitHub, Archive.Org, Pastebin
#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
Strange that they're blocking software rather than websites. E.g. the github block says "gist-it" next to it, which implies they maybe wanted to block https://github.com/robertkrimen/gist-it ? There's also http://atnsoft.com/atnsoft.com/textpaster/ blocked and http://sourceforge.net/projects/phorkie/ which is described as "Self-hosted pastebin software written in PHP. Pastes are editable, may have multiple files and…
likely gist.github.com
That's on the list separately (#23).
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#120Is 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.
Wouldn't a DNS block also require controlling all the ISPs?
Depends on if the DNS is state-run or not. Again, I'm not sure what the situation in India is.