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Indian Govt order bans 32 sites including Archive.org, GitHub, Pastebin, Vimeo

by shrikrishna on 12/31/14, 9:05 AM with 2 comments

  • by trextrex on 12/31/14, 11:27 AM

    Context: Apparently some users were hosting pro-IS content on these sites [1]

    This smacks of incompetence and idiocy. It is clear that a lot of people in the government do not understand how the internet works, and what these sites do. (They probably do not understand that these sites contain user generated content)

    [1] http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/31/indian-government-censorsht...

  • by snowbeard on 12/31/14, 11:44 AM

    Fortunately these blocks are just DNS blocks at the ISP level. I just pointed machine to use the google DNS service and everything works fine.