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

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Oh-ho! Security is evidently high on the Indian government's priority list... the Joint Secretary for the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, a Mr Shri P. Kalyanasundaram, has an email address at Yahoo for official correspondence! [1] I'm wondering how long it will be though before the Wikipedia article gets updated: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_India 1. http://pgportal.gov.in/pgo.aspx

The Wikipedia article is already up-to-date.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_India#3...

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

#202

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The Oklahoma City bombing was considered terrorism.

That bombing may also be considered an "inside job". The demolition was due to bombs inside the building. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWwrEEP8EBk - http://physics911.net/generalpartinreport [Bomb Damage Analysis of Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building by Brigadier Gen. Bentin K. Partin, USAF (Ret.)] And the meaning of terrorism, as it will always be for lapdogs of the bully with the most power, is violence and int…

Sad. I didn't know the truthers were now targeting the OKC bombing. Oh well, at least they make it easy to spot when they include 911 in URLs.

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So beheading Lee Rigby on the streets of the UK was regular warfare? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Lee_Rigby

I think the attackers used that exact defense during legal proceedings.

I agree with them tbh. but that means they should have been shot on the spot instead of arrested.

I don't mean I agree with their cause but I am surprised attacks on service men & women don't happen more on their home soil which, from one perspective, is behind enemy lines.

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

#204
Looks like India is using a cannon to kill a mosquito. Regardless of what we think about terrorism, disabling access to entire sites companies rely on for their daily operation is simply careless.

As noted by other commented they didn't even try to resolve the situation but rather went the route of blindly blocking access.

This is a huge red flag, in my opinion, that the Internet as we know is has reached a big fork in the road and where we go from here will do are if our future will look like Biff's world in Back to the Future II or not...

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

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post #202

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That bombing may also be considered an "inside job". The demolition was due to bombs inside the building. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWwrEEP8EBk - http://physics911.net/generalpartinreport [Bomb Damage Analysis of Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building by Brigadier Gen. Bentin K. Partin, USAF (Ret.)] And the meaning of terrorism, as it will always be for lapdogs of the bully with the most power, is violence and int…

Sad. I didn't know the truthers were now targeting the OKC bombing. Oh well, at least they make it easy to spot when they include 911 in URLs.

If you feel good being able to "spot" things to categorically dismiss as junk, so be it, (we all take such shortcuts when experience warrants it), although I would caution you to do so carefully, and with some retrospection periodically. Along with fantasy-and-faulty-beliefs about things like faked UFO pictures and dog-whistle-anti-Semitic 9/11 "truth", you may wind up dismissing incontrovertible physical evidence about controlled demolitions along the way.

Truthers of the sort as you are dismissing have been around along time. They point out things like...

- a single shooter couldn't have put out as many bullets as were evidently fired; the fatal wound couldn't have come from the position of the "single" shooter (both JFK and RFK)

- the "apparent" cause of a building's (partial|full) collapse couldn't have done by the supposed cause (both OKC and 9/11)

...and a very large group of people find ways to disbelieve them. The official cause couldn't have actually been the cause, but so many people miss such facts, even when they're stated plainly by someone outside of the lapdog media establishment, or the imperial state/corporate establishment.

So you dismiss it because the URL smells like something bad to you, but you are this missing out on actual facts by associating the worst custodians of a general argument ("inside job") with the custodians who do a good, forensic job, such as retired General Ben Partin. Do you even care about the historical footage in the video link of bomb squads removing bombs from the OKC Federal Building?

Your beliefs are your mistake and I hope you change your head and your life, in spite of the fact that you will more likely feel greater utility, satisfaction, wealth, and reward in your life if you don't change your beliefs. The empire will reward you for believing its lies, and being a more willing servant.

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

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As the owner of https://cryptbin.com , also on the list, I've never received any such communication either.

Can you send out a tweet from the Cryptbin or your personal Twitter account stating that you haven't received any communication? Retweets should help raise awareness on this. Thanks!

Done!

https://twitter.com/cryptbin/status/550455122091077632

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

#207

Why stop at the domain level? India should block all *.com traffic until Verisign takes down all objectionable content.

You joke now, but e.g. https://pracops.com/wiki/index.php/Jon_Postel#DNS_Root_Autho...

That cert is expired...

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

#208
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"Governments aren't in the customer service business" - Errr actually that's exactly the business democratic governments are in. Not saying they don't fail regularly but when you are elected by the people for the people you'd better be prepared to provide customer service.

Except most people won't know about this or care. You get the government you deserve, which is to say, a shitty one.

Don't know why you're being downvoted. This is absolutely correct. Even more so for India than, say, the US (source: I'm Indian). Nobody but a tiny tiny fraction of the population cares that github is getting blocked. The opposition wouldn't even bother making it a big issue since the numbers are so insignificant. And even if they did, they don't really have a moral leg to stand on because all politicians and government officials, almost without exception (ok.. maybe with some rare exceptions) are eager to use censorship when it suites their purposes (usually under the pretext of national security... but even that figleaf is not always necessary).

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

#209
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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…

I m not sure if github is blocked, i m pulling repos right now from Bangalore.

Can you see gists?

https://gist.github.com/

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

#210
post #91

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¯\_(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.

It absolutely does not.

The safe harbors provided by S512 and S230 are absolute and are not impeded by proactive (or reactive) administration. This is part of their reason for their existence.

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