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Official reason for blocking: the site hosts texts describing methods of suicide. Because Github uses HTTPS only, it's impossible to block only the offending pa

Official reason for blocking: the site hosts texts describing methods of suicide. Because Github uses HTTPS only, it's impossible to block only the offending pages, so the whole IP range is blocked. Github ignored their requests to remove the offending content, so the site remains blocked. I hope Russian citizens get a big fat boost of morality from blocking Github. Really, it's not the alcoholism, injustice, corruption, poverty and now economic collapse that causes people to commit suicide in Russia, it's... Github !! This just shows how braindead the people holding power in Russia are. Oh, and these censorship 'laws' have been adopted by people who've stolen billions and who've built a corrupt police state, which is really scary, because the same people have their fingers on the red button.

acqq 12y ago
Don't worry, practically every European country censors something on the internet (example: (1)) Some level of absurdity is always present as there are almost always some methods to get to the data when the person is determined enough. 1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_United_Kingdom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Unit... I'm writing from one another West European country. Here even teens share the IP numbers of the video sites banned on the DNS servers of the providers, to type that in the browser's link bar. The providers were served the court orders. It's just on the DNS level at the moment.
- drdaeman 12y ago
  Well, at least you have court orders (at least those are directed) and it seems that providers don't even bother to mess with IP payload, just make their DNS server spoof the zone (hope I'm not wrong they don't redirect all udp port 53 traffic to their servers). Not like it helps, but it's much better. The whole current situation in Russia is a bit different - there are no court orders at all (that is, the whole censorship is completely unaccountable), and every ISP has to blindly comply or risk getting their license to operate revoked (or at least not prolonged).
- pantalaimon 12y ago
  > practically every European country censors something on the internet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_and_surveillance_by_country http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_and_surveil... doesn't support that
  - DanBC 12y ago
    That page isn't very good. It says that the UK doesn't censor the Internet yet we know that there are two levels of censorship in England: i) the IWF lists - these cover sites that distribute images of child sexual abuse ii) court order - these cover sites like the PirateBay.
    - undefined0 12y ago
      3 levels. The third is the opt-out censorship to protect the children from file sharing, vpn & privacy related info, extreme content (gore), extreme political content (neo-Nazi, maybe even Britian First related but not confirmed), sex related, etc. By censoring file sharing & privacy related content, it does damange the "path" to becoming a programmer for some people. I know that if these were filtered by default I'd have never learnt how to program.
  - justaman 12y ago
    Don't use Wikipedia for citing. Your high school teachers would shame you!
    - deleted 12y ago
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- Istof 12y ago
  The US censors a bunch of sites too if that makes you feel any better
spacemanmatt 12y ago
Thank goodness my $COUNTRY doesn't do that.
maga 12y ago
I expected something like this, but I thought it would be GitHub blocking Russia, like Google was/is blocking Iran, not the other way around. The situation reminds me of Russia's sanctions against Europe.
- deleted 12y ago
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  - maga 12y ago
    This one isn't a sanction, of course, it's just another lapse in the censoring machine. The situation itself reminds of those sanctions, because just like how this thing mostly affects and hurts Russians themselves, those Russia's sanctions too are mostly hurting ordinary people, driving food prices high, limiting options etc.
eps 12y ago
> now economic collapse Don't take what a TV box tells you this literally. The currency exchange rate going up is not an economic collapse. I lived through Perestroika years - that was nasty, but current situation is even less of a "collapse" as what the US economy had during the mortgage crisis.
- raquo 12y ago
  Effectively, every Russian's salary just depreciated 50% to a significant portion of the goods they buy. Local businesses might come out on top of this due to their goods being more competitive vs imports, but the population is screwed again. Rich guys become richer, poor guys become poorer. But that's just the exchange rate. Credit rates hiked up significantly and foreign investment into Russia dwindled. Big projects are put on hold due to uncertainty. My outlook is negative.
xor-ed-wolf 12y ago
Ugh.. I hate them for this. Wish some organization can initiate organized mass protests to this bullshit. Not that I believe it will have any effect because the infamous roi.ru had already demonstrated that current government doesn't give a shit about opinions of its people popular or not.

acqq 12y ago

Don't worry, practically every European country censors something on the internet (example: (1)) Some level of absurdity is always present as there are almost always some methods to get to the data when the person is determined enough. 1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_United_Kingdom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Unit... I'm writing from one another West European country. Here even teens share the IP numbers of the video sites banned on the DNS servers of the providers, to type that in the browser's link bar. The providers were served the court orders. It's just on the DNS level at the moment.

drdaeman 12y ago
Well, at least you have court orders (at least those are directed) and it seems that providers don't even bother to mess with IP payload, just make their DNS server spoof the zone (hope I'm not wrong they don't redirect all udp port 53 traffic to their servers). Not like it helps, but it's much better. The whole current situation in Russia is a bit different - there are no court orders at all (that is, the whole censorship is completely unaccountable), and every ISP has to blindly comply or risk getting their license to operate revoked (or at least not prolonged).
pantalaimon 12y ago
> practically every European country censors something on the internet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_and_surveillance_by_country http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_and_surveil... doesn't support that
- DanBC 12y ago
  That page isn't very good. It says that the UK doesn't censor the Internet yet we know that there are two levels of censorship in England: i) the IWF lists - these cover sites that distribute images of child sexual abuse ii) court order - these cover sites like the PirateBay.
  - undefined0 12y ago
    3 levels. The third is the opt-out censorship to protect the children from file sharing, vpn & privacy related info, extreme content (gore), extreme political content (neo-Nazi, maybe even Britian First related but not confirmed), sex related, etc. By censoring file sharing & privacy related content, it does damange the "path" to becoming a programmer for some people. I know that if these were filtered by default I'd have never learnt how to program.
- justaman 12y ago
  Don't use Wikipedia for citing. Your high school teachers would shame you!
  - deleted 12y ago
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Istof 12y ago
The US censors a bunch of sites too if that makes you feel any better

spacemanmatt 12y ago

Thank goodness my $COUNTRY doesn't do that.

maga 12y ago

I expected something like this, but I thought it would be GitHub blocking Russia, like Google was/is blocking Iran, not the other way around. The situation reminds me of Russia's sanctions against Europe.

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- maga 12y ago
  This one isn't a sanction, of course, it's just another lapse in the censoring machine. The situation itself reminds of those sanctions, because just like how this thing mostly affects and hurts Russians themselves, those Russia's sanctions too are mostly hurting ordinary people, driving food prices high, limiting options etc.

eps 12y ago

> now economic collapse Don't take what a TV box tells you this literally. The currency exchange rate going up is not an economic collapse. I lived through Perestroika years - that was nasty, but current situation is even less of a "collapse" as what the US economy had during the mortgage crisis.

raquo 12y ago
Effectively, every Russian's salary just depreciated 50% to a significant portion of the goods they buy. Local businesses might come out on top of this due to their goods being more competitive vs imports, but the population is screwed again. Rich guys become richer, poor guys become poorer. But that's just the exchange rate. Credit rates hiked up significantly and foreign investment into Russia dwindled. Big projects are put on hold due to uncertainty. My outlook is negative.

xor-ed-wolf 12y ago

Ugh.. I hate them for this. Wish some organization can initiate organized mass protests to this bullshit. Not that I believe it will have any effect because the infamous roi.ru had already demonstrated that current government doesn't give a shit about opinions of its people popular or not.