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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

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Post by meta-coder »

rajbot wrote: post #245

I am trying to find out if archive.org is still being blocked or not, as we are hearing conflicting reports from users. I queried the Indian DNS servers on this list that are marked 'valid' or 'new': http://public-dns.tk/nameserver/in.html Only one of them (182.59.1.235, operated by MTNL ISP) returned the fake IP being used for blocked sites (59.185.3.14). The other 1843 servers returned the correct IP. I am trying t…

Yes, archive.org is still being blocked by BSNL's default DNS server in Maharashtra as of Thu Jan 1 20:40:11 IST 2015.

  $ dig +nocmd +nostats +nocomments @218.248.255.211 archive.org
  ;archive.org.			IN	A
  archive.org.		86400	IN	SOA	localhost. root.localhost. 1997022700 28800 14400 3600000 86400

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

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Post by anuraj »

peterfirefly wrote: post #292
okpatil wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Being an Indian, I wish that this was true.

Would it be better if India was broken up into much smaller states, possibly more or less along the current internal borders? Is India really seen as a country by the Indians or is it seen more like a bunch of unwanted outside overlords ruling over your local part of India, whichever that might be? I'm asking partly because I live in the EU where we are explicitly trying to create a big, state-like construction for m…

India is number of ethnic nations lumped together. But there is hardly any autonomy left.

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

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Post by sametmax »

twothamendment wrote: post #180
sametmax wrote: post #47

Wow, I'm the autor of 0bin.net (it's an encrypted pastebin written in python). Kinda feel weird to see your (really) small pastebin get caught in that. It's insane. Well, it's open source and easy to install, anybody can duplicate it if needed so I guess it's ok. Maybe we should add some way to replicate one instance content to other trusted instances to avoid this problem.

It is open source on another website that is ... blocked. Funny. For the curious: https://github.com/sametmax/0bin Replication would be cool feature.

Yeah. And our blog is usually blocked too, actually even in France. Some entreprise firewalls block our blog, some antivirus firewall too cause we mix NSFW content with programming in our articles. Well, I guess when the big guys start blocking you, you are probably doing something right :)

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

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Post by jumpwah »

meta-coder wrote: post #300

BSNL's DNS server replying with "SOA localhost. root.localhost." to all of the blocked domains (except sourceforge.net and atnsoft.com). # 218.248.255.211 is the default DNS server for BSNL DSL customers in Maharashtra, India $ date Thu Jan 1 20:21:02 IST 2015 $ dig +nocmd +nostats +nocomments @218.248.255.211 -f blocked.txt ;justpaste.it. IN A justpaste.it. 86400 IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. 1997022700 28800 14…

holy fucking shit is this actually happening. has it happened before? how long do these last?

By the way, I'm not in India, but still, surely this is not going to last? I mean, why have they not blocked youtube and stackoverflow, do they not have integrity? So like is everyone in india going to use gitlab and ptpb.pw now?

Edit:

May as fucking well block google right? Do they not understand the importance of github.com and all the wealth of software that it contains? I mean yeah, centralization of lots of important stuff is bad for this exact reason, but at this stage, blocking github has got to really backfire here...

India has software developers right, this has to royally fuck a lot of them and their development environments am I wrong?

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

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Post by dean »

chernevik wrote: post #295
bigbugbag wrote: post #288

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 mess…

I doubt anyone resisting Nazi invasion killed any innocent people. What would be the point? The only innocents in their country would be their own countrymen, little point in killing them. Collaborators? Not innocent. Terrorists _target_ innocent people to gain advantage through intimidation. That's wrong, everywhere and always.

The parent used the word "Terrorist", but in that context, I think of it as a "Resistance Fighter". It would have been the people in charge, in this case the Nazis, who would have used the label "Terrorist".

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

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Post by jumpwah »

byEngineer wrote: post #303
lovelearning wrote: post #270

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Tyranny anywhere is a threat to freedom everywhere."

bs. India has always been backwards, so nothing different or new. Again, who cares?

Oh I don't know, perhaps people in India?

Edit: What, did you not think that might be a remote possibility? :D

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

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Post by Vivtek »

adventured wrote: post #112
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.

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 yo…

Being alerted to offending material is not proactive screening.

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

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Post by Vivtek »

bigphishy wrote: post #177
jeremyjh wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You do realize that it's the Indian government at issue here, right?

I would argue that the indian government is doing this at the pressure from the united states government.

So why is India the only country to have taken this step?
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