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

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Post by walshemj »

pkhagah wrote: post #137
Xeoncross wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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.

Actually that tweet was not from government official. It was from ruling political party IT cell here. Government officials from DOT and IT ministry are still silent on this issue.

what is a "political party IT cell" is this some committee of MP's? or some Indian political slang?

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Post by anxrn »

danellis wrote: post #21
ToastyMallows wrote: post #8

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.

Wouldn't a DNS block also require controlling all the ISPs?

All ISP's in India need to be licensed by the government [1]. Non-compliance with this directive puts their license at risk.

[1] http://www.dot.gov.in/data-services/internet-services

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Post by [deleted] »

drdaeman wrote: post #67
javajosh wrote: post #24

"Blocking websites" is a degree-of-freedom national governments simply should not have.

They could, but I strongly hope for a few things: 1. The technical side of things would prevent anyone from blocking easily, making it costly to censor. 2. The sites won't bend much, understanding the full consequences of their actions, that with every demand complied there will be another one. It starts with evil terrorists and pedophiles but never ends with those, going after political activists, whistleblowers and…

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Post by vacri »

themonk wrote: post #79
bdcravens wrote: post #2

If 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.

It's less easy to put workarounds in place for, say, a configuration-managed CI system pulling from github than for your own dev workstation. In theory it's simple, but in practice there's a lot of boilerplate and testing.

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Post by zachrose »

ceejayoz wrote: post #102
happyscrappy wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Drone strikes explicitly try not to hit non-combatants. ISIS slaughter wantonly. Some people have a world view that needs to see the US and ISIS as equivalently evil.

> Drone strikes explicitly try not to hit non-combatants. http://www.salon.com/2012/05/29/militants_media_propaganda/ "Mr. Obama embraced a disputed method for counting civilian casualties that did little to box him in. It in effect counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants , according to several administration officials, unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent." IS…

Wow, that's exactly what Judith Butler is talking about when she talks about which lives are grievable and which are not[1].

[1] https://www.rochester.edu/in_visible_culture/Issue_16/review...

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