Re:Duck duck go banned in India?
by squiggleblaz on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @08:45AM
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I heard India has been banning a lot of Chinese sites, which makes sense, since India and China have been fighting. It is normal to restrict trade with your enemies.
But what other motivations are there for India to ban things? Is there general censorship or something?
Re:Duck duck go banned in India?
by kerkeslager on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @09:38AM
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I worked on a site targeting an Indian user base for a bit, and in order to be allowed to operate in India, we had to partner with an Indian company that basically had veto power over any part of the process.
I think this is a smart strategy. Keep in mind, India gained independence in 1947--there are people alive (although not many) who remember India being a colony. Indians are very aware of the post-colonial activities of Western powers in Africa and South America, and have good reasons to be worried about cultural and economic imperialism. By maintaining tight control over what foreign businesses are allowed to operate in India, they can limit what power foreign nations have in India, keeping wealth and influence firmly within their borders.
Americans like to think that we're the benevolent leaders of the free world and that we've always been a great help to people in other countries, but this is not the case. From assassinations, funding coups, embargoes, and direct invasions, the US has not always been a positive influence on the third world. India is right to be suspicious of American businesses in India.
Re:Duck duck go banned in India?
by fmajid on Thursday July 02, 2020 @02:20PM
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The US tried gunboat diplomacy in 1971 to deter India from stopping Pakistani genocide in Bangladesh. Just because our memories are short does not mean theirs are.
Re:Duck duck go banned in India?
by puranjay on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @08:50AM
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Most adult websites have been banned for quite a while now. Some random websites often get caught in the ban periodically. The Internet Archive was banned for a while. Iirc, Libgen was also banned once.
Re:Duck duck go banned in India?
by 309d9095 on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @09:01AM
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I'm from India as well. It's not blocked on Airtel broadband for me, but any requests to DuckDuckGo initially shows a DNS resolution failure (don't remember what the exact error was). And after 5-10 seconds, the page loads as expected.
But what other motivations are there for India to ban things? Is there general censorship or something?
I think this is a smart strategy. Keep in mind, India gained independence in 1947--there are people alive (although not many) who remember India being a colony. Indians are very aware of the post-colonial activities of Western powers in Africa and South America, and have good reasons to be worried about cultural and economic imperialism. By maintaining tight control over what foreign businesses are allowed to operate in India, they can limit what power foreign nations have in India, keeping wealth and influence firmly within their borders.
Americans like to think that we're the benevolent leaders of the free world and that we've always been a great help to people in other countries, but this is not the case. From assassinations, funding coups, embargoes, and direct invasions, the US has not always been a positive influence on the third world. India is right to be suspicious of American businesses in India.
It’s working with green-tunnel to bypass Jio’s SNI based blocking.
So surely, it’s blocked, not some server issues.