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Re:VLC media player banned in India by pseudostem on Saturday August 13, 2022 @01:40AM (#32447223)
I hold a Class B ISP license. We get letters (not emails, physical letters)from Department of Telecommunication asking us to block http://www.example.com

We don't bother with blocking http://example.com or its https cousin.

In this case we have not received any letter for VLC

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Re:VLC media player banned in India by OmarAssadi on Saturday August 13, 2022 @05:32AM (#32448232)
Do they not also ever request blocks on particular IP addresses? A lot of collateral damage happened due to blocking whole ranges from AWS and such when Russia was trying to ban Telegram.
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Re:VLC media player banned in India by pseudostem on Sunday August 14, 2022 @11:26AM (#32460016)
We haven't received request for blocking blocks of IPs till date. Maybe it happens with upstream ISPs or peering exchanges, I'm unsure.

In the past, we have received requests for single IP addresses

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