GitHub Censors Catalonian App Tsunami Democratic

Re:GitHub Censors Catalonian App Tsunami Democratic by notkaiho on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @06:05AM (#21396038)

From a machine translation of the article: "announced through its Telegram channel that the US company had thrown access to the Tsunami repository from our country. You only need to go to one of their last available web links: tsunamidemocratic.github.io to see that it is true. In a warning message written in English , the system alerts that "the repository is not available in your location"."

I'm not in Catalonia, and was able to click through to the repository. Surely no developer would be deterred by a simple IP ban?

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Re:GitHub Censors Catalonian App Tsunami Democratic by wayoutthere on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @08:51AM (#21397107)

> Surely no developer would be deterred by a simple IP ban?

Except it's not just for developers; it's the homepage for the app.

Though part of me has a feeling that GitHub complies with these takedown notices in the way that they do because they know how easily circumvented they are. Pretty much everyone involved with a modern protest movement has been taught some basic level of digital OpSec by the organizers.

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Re:GitHub Censors Catalonian App Tsunami Democratic by EugeneOZ on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @09:07AM (#21397249)

I'm in Barcelona and was able to open that page and download that app. My IP is not masked and few geo-ip services I tried says "Barcelona".

To avoid future possible misunderstandings: I do not support Tsunami Democràtic and I strongly disagree with their methods.

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