Based on the schools Mr. Arvind Gupta, the head of IT Cell, BJP is following in Linkedin[1], it seems like he studied in IIT Benaras Hindu University, Varanasi. Assuming he didn't get in using political connections/kickbacks, he is clearly not an idiot. I'm genuinely puzzled by this dumb decision. He is a freaking engineer from a top technical university of India and the guy doesn't know what github is for?!
India Orders 32 Websites Blocked, Including GitHub, Archive.Org, Pastebin
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#282As a Chinese, I thought (really) India has freedom of speech and this kind of things should never happen there, I can imagine what you might feel, my India fellows.
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#283FYI, if the ban on Github is hampering your collaboration during day to day development, you can also self host Gitlab https://about.gitlab.com which is working great for us.
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#284Not unusual in India. The IT Laws here are outdated, no ID protection and Privacy Laws have come to effect which are still lying to be approved.
The problem is with the people in power who are just arrogant in their will to exercise it without knowing the intricacies or the impact.
Certain sections of the IT act (Sec 66 for example) are still being abused.
The way to improve it is actually involing institutes like IIT and people from technology as their core field to get laws drafted and processes.
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#285Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Now I really wish there was a place you could comment on the Indian government's most incompetent decisions.
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#286Arvind 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…
Well they only need to remove the offensive stuff from the Indian version of those websites. This is something I know google can not sure about pastebin and github.
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#287Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 e…
Ah like SPAD's (Special Advisors) are they considered temporary civil servants it seems odd that an unelected "advisor" is making policy and being quoted in the media though.
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#288Earlier 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).
I'm sure everything is happening very fast right now, but I hope you arrive at a policy more carefully drawn than this. All terrorists suck, and they haven't any right to use services like yours to coordinate hurting other people. Nor does anyone have the right to incite violence. But people do have a right to political opinions, and some such might be interpreted as "remotely pro terrorist", without actually being c…
> All terrorists suck
Being the descendant in a family that was host of several terrorists, I have to disagree with you. See once the war was over and nazi germany got booted out, all those terrorists in my family instantly turned into resistance heroes.
Turns out those terrorists in my family were just ordinary people who got into this for reason as simple as having a bike allowing them to move around and relay messages, sort of an internet over bike and some of them got caught and executed for that.
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#289You have to realize that some countries don't have internet. Like China, China does not have internet. They probably don't even know what Internet is. They think if they can order something from Taobao then this is Internet. Regarding communication (phone, internet, postal mail) China is not even a third world country since third world countries actually have internet.
Now the Indian government tries to compete with China who has the most fucked up communications. Good luck!
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#290Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would they have any incentive to contact you? From their perspective the problem is solved -- the material offending statist is out of sight, out of mind. You're the one who wants a different situation to exist. Governments aren't in the customer service business.
"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.
Oh come on. Whenever the public actually demands something, the government's response is always batons, tear-gas and rubber bullets (and some torture thrown in for good measure, of course).
You call that customer service? Imagine McDonald's tasing you for complaining about not getting what you ordered.
-That's exactly how governments behave. As a recent example, China and HK declare that from now on, Hong Kong's electoral candidates will be chosen by the tyrants in Beijing. HK's citizens protest. HK's police forces brutalize the citizens.