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GitHub blocked in Russia
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Re: GitHub blocked in Russia
#172repost to reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/2o90sp/russia_ba...
Re: GitHub blocked in Russia
#173Why are there text files describing methods of suicide on GitHub anyway? From what I can tell they show up in seemingly unrelated repos. Are these just bandwagoning in protest or am I missing something?
I have no idea why my question was downvoted. GitHub is a social site built around a software for version control, primarily for code. GitHub also has a history of removing content that uses GitHub for other purposes (e.g. GamerGate raid/doxing coordination).
The reason I'm confused is that most of the examples I was able to find that match the claim are text files in otherwise unrelated repositories. It is odd to find a text file describing ways to off yourself in a source code repository that has nothing else to do with suicide.
Also, unless it's a more complex document (e.g. an e-book), sites like GitHub Gists or Pastebin would seem to be more likely choices than GitHub proper.
Re: GitHub blocked in Russia
#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hi, pal. I live in Moscow too, and I agree with you: what's happening is really really sad. I use github for everyday work, and suddenly I failed to connect. I need my job actually, you know? And they just broke it. For what? For blocking one file, which nobody cared about? Are they serious? This is fucking insane. And regime is fucking insane. And "replace your t-shirt with a patriotic one" ads on streets are just t…
Me exactly. Didn't think about moving, now it's the only thing I think of. I actually gave Russia a big credit on patriotism and it wasted it all. It's done for me. The country where I grew up (for good or bad) no longer exists, they destroyed it.
oh man i feel the same.....
Re: GitHub blocked in Russia
#175I live in Russia (Moscow) and I'm working for leading russian internet company. I'm very annoyed by current political and economical situation. I was so upset by events happening last months that I simply stopped reading russian news at all. And I spent all the time in places like GitHub, Topcoder, English Wikipedia, Hacker News etc. Yesterday, I've tried to make yet another commit to my private repository and sudden…
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B3064ALCEAEnJWT.png:large - according to this chart, you are not alone in considering emigration.
What happened in mid 2011 in Russia?
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#176Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B3064ALCEAEnJWT.png:large - according to this chart, you are not alone in considering emigration.
What happened in mid 2011 in Russia?
Lots of small things; they added up and the regime became more oppressive and nationalistic. People started to feel it even if they stayed away from politics.
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#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
At least one company has been court ordered to block access to the Pirate Bay. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countries_blocking_access_to_... > On 13 May 2010, the Hamburg District Court ordered an injunction against CB3Rob Ltd & Co KG (Cyberbunker) and its operator, Mr. Sven Olaf Kamphuis, restraining them from connecting The Pirate Bay site to the Internet.[24] The injunction application was brought by the Motion…
That example (Nazi symbol) gets old.. [1] Can I burn the American Flag or (in your case, if I'm correctly understanding that you're in London) the Union Jack in a public place? What about nudity (no clue in the UK, but I'm still laughing hard about 'nipplegate' to this very day) on TV? Every culture probably sets acceptable limits in what you can show/express/say or do (even the US free speech isn't protecting you fr…
"Can I burn the American Flag...in a public place?"
Yes.
"What about nudity"
What does nudity have to do with anything? The topic is political speech. Anyway, there's plenty of nudity on cable, on the net...
Note that if the nudity does have political significance, numerous U.S. courts have held that it's protected.
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#178Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is the strongest argument against democracy I've ever heard. When it comes right down to it, fact is that >50% (and more likely >80%) is in favor of laws against LGBT. At least 50% of the 7 billion humans is in favor of criminalizing freedom of religion. In favor of censorship is probably >75% as well, because when push comes to shove, a large majority of muslims, chinese and russians are in favor of it, as is m…
How is this an argument against democracy? What is your proposed alternative that would be superior? Can a broad statement like 'the strongest argument against democracy' even be made when democracy takes many forms and has varying degrees of adherence to the principles behind their expression? What of countries that had laws against racial intermarriage or same-sex marriage and have changed those laws because there…
I don't have an alternative. The point is that if we really were fully democratic world-wide, we'd be locking up or killing gays/lesbians, we'd have blasphemy laws for every religion and some ideologies enforced world-wide, ...
Assuming you do not consider this a desirable situation, it forms an argument against democracy itself.
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#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B3064ALCEAEnJWT.png:large - according to this chart, you are not alone in considering emigration.
What happened in mid 2011 in Russia?
The migration rate rises sharply in late 2011/early 2012. Putin was nominated for re-election as president in September 2011, elected March 2012
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#180Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm travelling frequently to both Russia and Turkey - to avoid having stupid spatial location based limitations I've been using privateinternetaccess.com for more than 6 months now. it's pretty cheap and has gateways all around the world - I recommend it without any hesitation... I especially like having access to streaming video for the shows I watch that is limited to country ip's like the daily show...
We're hackers, let's promote using our own servers and service providers, don't support the VPN sellers who can be behind this particular blockade, maybe even bribing the censors. See the comments here, ssh is enough.
yes of course but that requires to have an always on computer to connect to...