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

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Post by nicksergeant »

chernevik wrote: post #237
nicksergeant wrote: post #70

Earlier 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…

I appreciate your comments. Snipt is a very low-traffic site so I doubt my decisions along these lines will ever have much impact on very many people in general, but I am filing for DMCA agent status and will adopt an official Terms of Use and all that jazz.

As a tiny (open-source) side project, this stuff is no fun, but I realize it's now a requirement if I want to continue leaving the site up.

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

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Post by train_robber »

anandrm wrote: post #186
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…

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

Even I can. GitHub and Gists are all accessible from where I am.

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

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Post by dghughes »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I don't think the terrorists will care /jk

:P

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

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Post by jqm »

samspot wrote: post #234
jqm wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe it's partially incentive to develop domestic equivalents? Probably not, probably just stupidity, but then again...maybe. ("Never assign to stupidity what can be adequately explained by malice or greed" ... or something like that)

You got the stupidity/malice-greed quote entirely backwards :). You aren't supposed to attribute to malice anything that can be explained by stupidity.

Yes, I know what the original quote says. I'm not stupid:)

I believe when big well funded parties do things that appear simply stupid, sometimes there is more at play than stupidity. Quite often it involves money.

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

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Post by rajbot »

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 to figure out if that means archive.org has been removed from the block list, or if the DNS servers listed on that page haven't yet been updated with the blocked sites.

If anyone can help us figure out if archive.org is still blocked, it would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks! -raj at archive.org

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

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Post by _nedR »

p3rs3us wrote: post #213
cryptbin wrote: post #206

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

As far as I can tell, the ban has not yet been enforced. I can access both https://cryptbin.com/ and https://snipt.net/ , though my ISP is limited only to Bangalore area. Edit: Well, it looks like pastebin & dailymotion are banned, but cryptbin and snipt aren't

All 4 seemed to be blocked from my office in Kerala. Github is up so they probably have resolved the issue. A week back Github became mysteriously unavailable (with github status showing no downtime). I guess now we know what happened.

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

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Post by sumedh »

p3rs3us wrote: post #213
cryptbin wrote: post #206

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

As far as I can tell, the ban has not yet been enforced. I can access both https://cryptbin.com/ and https://snipt.net/ , though my ISP is limited only to Bangalore area. Edit: Well, it looks like pastebin & dailymotion are banned, but cryptbin and snipt aren't

I can access both https://cryptbin.com/ and https://snipt.net/ from MTNL Mumbai.

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

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Post by _nedR »

anandrm wrote: post #186
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…

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

Here in Kerala github.com is up and running but gists.github.com returns "Connection interrupted"
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