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

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Post by pjc50 »

bbarn wrote: post #4

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…

Remember, "offensive" is transitive: to whom is something offensive?

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2003/08/22/54679... : India had its own idea of what is unacceptable. ISTR there may be no map which is legal in both India and Pakistan.

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

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Post by confusedIndian »

walshemj wrote: post #152
pkhagah wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

The ruling party, BJP, has a group of IT professionals managing their online presence. This, they call their "IT cell".

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Post by viksit »

walshemj wrote: post #152
pkhagah wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

The terms are a bit messed up, but the closest thing these are to a US organization is a presidential campaign policy working group. [1] These are the guys who basically act as advisors to the government's top politicians on issues that relate to technology.

Edit: They don't only manage the online presence of the political party. They are more detailed, coming up with policies and papers (presumably - none of these ever show up in public, oddly) [2]

[1] As an example, here's Obama's - http://change.gov/learn/policy_working_groups

[2] The head of the IT cell's LI profile - https://www.linkedin.com/in/argupta26

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

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Post by TheMagicHorsey »

tormeh wrote: post #71
happyscrappy wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They are terrorizing local populations for a political goal. They are not just fighting battles they are slaughtering civilians into compliance. How is that not terrorism? Edit: He also claimed that it would be better if ISIS was in charge of the area. That is quite ridiculous.

I've never heard anyone describe Hitler as a terrorist. Not the Soviets either. Even the US during the cold war terrorized their own population (only the communist part of it, but I'm sure IS is fine with the local population as long as it adheres to the IS ideology) I think in order to be a terrorist, terror has to be your main political tool.

History, my brother, check it out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives

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Post by chris_wot »

nicksergeant wrote: post #178
benjarrell wrote: post #167

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Do you have a terms of service and/or privacy policy? I can't locate it.

We don't have one, no. Going to get one up tonight.

Speaking of safe harbour, have you registered yourself with the copyright office with a designated contact person to receive DMCA takedown requests? You don't seem to have a prominent link to that info on your mobile page.

I suspect that THAT will cause you issues.

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Post by chris_wot »

jacquesm wrote: post #139
TylerE wrote: post #91

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That may not be in your best interest, lefally. Pro-active moderation makes it very hard to argue safe harbor status.

It's not pro-active, it is reactive. He explicitly states he's not doing pro-active removals.

His contact info for copyright requests is not prominent on his website, at least not that I can see.

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Post by chris_wot »

nicksergeant wrote: post #104
oasisbob wrote: post #97

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With regards to DMCA, 512(m) seems applicable.

Applicable how?

"(m) Protection of Privacy.— Nothing in this section shall be construed to condition the applicability of subsections (a) through (d) on—

(1) a service provider monitoring its service or affirmatively seeking facts indicating infringing activity, except to the extent consistent with a standard technical measure complying with the provisions of subsection (i); or

(2) a service provider gaining access to, removing, or disabling access to material in cases in which such conduct is prohibited by law."

Dude, you desperately need a designated agent. You just aren't under safe harbor at the moment.

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Post by Gigablah »

1971genocide wrote: post #174
vithlani wrote: post #171

LOL... welcome to the third world, with a tinge of fascism. I would like to see what all the curry apologists on HN come up with to defend this bullshit.

wow "curry apologists" ! ??

Could have at least attempted a pun.

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Post by drdaeman »

revelation wrote: post #29

I 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 .

They look so, but they are competent in maintaining the status quo, while doing whatever they fancy.

-- From Russia with love, huh. We have exactly the same kind of stuff here.

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