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VideoLAN has issued a legal notice to Indian Gov for banning their website
- i67vw3 4y agoSome nameless bureaucrat must have been trigger happy while banning VLC URL. Indian IT ministry is one if the worst ministries in the central government (from all governments formed until now)
- lloydatkinson 4y agoThe general state of IT and software development in India tracks the same
- yakorevivan 4y agoAwesome!! Governments should be held responsible for their actions. Way to go...
- puyoxyz 4y agoFor context: (not sure if this is right, just something I heard somewhere) the VLC website was banned because some people were distributing versions of VLC that included malware (not through the official VLC website, but through other websites), and for some reason instead of banning those unofficial websites they banned the official website
- somecommit 4y ago(conspiracy mode on:) Maybe the version with malware is linked to some high-earning scam company located in India
- boomboomsubban 4y agoSupposedly it was linked to Chinese hackers. To my knowledge, India has never explained the ban so we can't be sure.
- jbk 4y agoThe dates don’t match for this explanation.
- boomboomsubban 4y agoedit moving this discussion to the active thread.
- type0 4y agoSounds like a good idea when you need to disseminate state trojans
- phpisthebest 4y ago>some reason instead As with all things follow the money Ask why would the scam capital of the world banned the legit site.
- ShivShankaran 4y ago> Ask why would the scam capital of the world banned the legit site. I thought only Reddit had excessive racism. A comment so absurd it's not worth debating
- splitstud 4y ago
- gautamdivgi 4y agoBlatantly racist and bigoted statement. Really has no place on HN. Probably a troll.
- phpisthebest 4y agoFirst not a troll and in no way is it racist, it is a provable statement and the India government is doing nothing to stop the scammers and in some area's of the nation actively protecting them See the recent reporting by Mark Rober and Jim Browning. ALOT of scamming is currently originating from India, this is fact.
- gautamdivgi 4y agoIt is racist because you are indicating that India is a land of scams. There’s an equal number of small $$ scams that happen all across Southeast Asia and Africa. For big $$ scams, look no further than NYC. Just by a dollar figure I think Madoff’s scams may eclipse anything all the scammers put together have done. Don’t single out an entire set of people.
- 411111111111111 4y ago
- xupybd 4y agoMore discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33077441 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33077441
- jwilk 4y agoRelated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32441911 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32441911 ("VLC media player banned in India", August 2022, 168 comments)
- jbk 4y agoPresident of VideoLAN here: it is what I did this weekend with the help of the IFF. We’ll see what happens next… AMA
- yrgulation 4y agoAlways knew authoritarian and corrupt regimes are irrational, but banning vlc? What kind of mental gymnastics have they employed in doing so?
- known 4y ago