Not that it matters (bypasses exist), but why do you want the Indian govt to completely block github ?

It inflicts real economic pain on the country, ever-so-slightly stunting it's growth. This kind of self-sabotage by India is good for the rest of us. (Of course it'd be even better if India wasn't so fucked up, but this is the world we live in)

Twitter isn't banned in India despite having that kind of content.

Because they order twitter to hide accounts they don't like in India.

Much hostility. You know this will cause more emigration right?

> You know this will cause more emigration right?

So? That's awesome!

Wow, I guess some right-wing anti-immigration lunatics flagged my other comment. But I will repeat it, emigration from India is a very good thing.

I actually don't care about it but how would that be a good thing?

How could it not be? More labour for the rest of us. Economically the benefits of immigration are unquestionable, despite scaremongering by the Western right.

Users flagged your sibling comment, no doubt because it was unsubstantive and arguably flamebait. That's against several of the site guidelines; this one, for example:

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

An user asked me "You know this will cause more emigration right?" How is an affirmative answer supposed to be flamebait or unsubstantive? I would definitely love to hear those arguments.

Ideological battle pejoratives are markers of ideological battle, which is not what this site is for.

Meta comments going on about what got downvoted or what got flagged are also off topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Wait, now it sounds like you're discussing the parent comment in this thread and not it's sibling comment.

I thought that this was the comment we are discussing:

>> You know this will cause more emigration right?

>So? That's awesome!

How is that "arguably flamebait"? It's just an enthusiastically affirmatory response to an yes/no question.

Sorry, I'm confused now. If I was talking about the wrong comment, I apologize. Please follow the site guidelines in all your comments though!

Do you have a source for your claim that BJP government has blocked it? If the intention is to block it, why is it only one ISP and that too in some regions and not across the entire nation?

lmao...you and your insidious agenda!

> Let's keep posting anti-BJP content on Github

lets keep politics out of github please. let it be just about code not some propagandist news outlet.

The Indian judiciary is independent, much to the chagrin of the BJP whenever rulings go against them. A court-ordered block has little if anything to do with the BJP.

Can't the BJP assign new judges that flavor them?

Authoritarian governments othen do that, like the one in Hong Kong.

Nope. Existing judges decide who gets selected to fill vacant seats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Judges_Cases

No, the judiciary have their own internal elections.

as an indian in india, its working just fine in my ISP

BJP isnt trying to "censor" "dissent" here, its just one ISP blocking it for some unspecified reason

its not that deep, everything you see on reddit isnt real, you can calm down.

As much as I like questioning the government, let's please keep partisan politics out of HN. It gets tiring to read the same tropes again and again.

Indian government has a long documented history of banning things without much thought and it looks one such case. I hope it gets resolved soon as other users are reporting that they can access it fine.