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Indian Govt order bans 32 sites including Archive.org, GitHub, Pastebin, Vimeo
- trextrex 12y agoContext: 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/ http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/31/indian-government-censorsht...
- snowbeard 12y agoFortunately these blocks are just DNS blocks at the ISP level. I just pointed machine to use the google DNS service and everything works fine.