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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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That makes no sense. Conservative groups are all about outsourcing. "dey took'r jeebs" groups are complaining about immigrants in the US.

> "dey took'r jeebs" groups are complaining about immigrants in the US.

Which are largely conservative.

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

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I can access Github, archive.org, pastebin from state owned BSNL with ISP provided DNS (from western part of India). Have confirmed from few other parts too and it seems to be working. Have been checking since last 6 hours and it hasn't been down yet.

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If it is a DNS block it wouldn't make much sense to write the full URLs.

The full URLs provide the source of the problem causing the block. It doesn't mean they won't crudely cut the entire domain.

For sites that work only over HTTPS, like Github, they'd need to block the entire domain, right? This is what happened in Russia recently:

http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/05/to-get-off-russias-blacklis...

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

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Ah that explains it! Haven't been able to push to Github ever since stepping off the plane in Mumbai. Strange thing is that the website works off-and-on. Pushing results in connection refused though. There's also been ZERO information/news provided by the ISP (MTNL) in this regard. Absolute shame that a blanket ban like this is applied. It has a profound effect on everyday activities unrelated to the original reason…

I also started having problems with github which reminded me to update my DNS settings setting to Google's, now everything works.

Didn't even know till a few hours ago that thses sites were being blocked since they display a blank page.

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

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I run https://snipt.net , one of the sites listed as being blocked, and I've never received any communication from anyone with the Indian government or ISPs. So they're not proactively doing anything to unblock these sites, as far as I can tell.

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.

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

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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.

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If it is a DNS block it wouldn't make much sense to write the full URLs.

The full URLs provide the source of the problem causing the block. It doesn't mean they won't crudely cut the entire domain.

Most of them are too general for this. I just suspect they were being inconsistent. Look at the trailing `/` in the URLs. Probably they copy-pasted without much thought.

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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…

As crazy as it sounds some HN users defend ISIS.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8808630

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