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Re:India Orders 32 Websites Blocked, Including GitHub, Archi... by jusben1369 on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @01:30PM (#8820445)
"Governments aren't in the customer service business" - Errr actually that's exactly the business democratic governments are in. Not saying they don't fail regularly but when you are elected by the people for the people you'd better be prepared to provide customer service.
Re:India Orders 32 Websites Blocked, Including GitHub, Archi... by iopq on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @04:07PM (#8821077)
Except most people won't know about this or care. You get the government you deserve, which is to say, a shitty one.
Re:India Orders 32 Websites Blocked, Including GitHub, Archi... by chetanahuja on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @08:03PM (#8821793)
Don't know why you're being downvoted. This is absolutely correct. Even more so for India than, say, the US (source: I'm Indian). Nobody but a tiny tiny fraction of the population cares that github is getting blocked. The opposition wouldn't even bother making it a big issue since the numbers are so insignificant. And even if they did, they don't really have a moral leg to stand on because all politicians and government officials, almost without exception (ok.. maybe with some rare exceptions) are eager to use censorship when it suites their purposes (usually under the pretext of national security... but even that figleaf is not always necessary).
Re:India Orders 32 Websites Blocked, Including GitHub, Archi... by honeybooboo123 on Thursday January 01, 2015 @07:45AM (#8822781)
Oh come on. Whenever the public actually demands something, the government's response is always batons, tear-gas and rubber bullets (and some torture thrown in for good measure, of course).

You call that customer service? Imagine McDonald's tasing you for complaining about not getting what you ordered.

-That's exactly how governments behave. As a recent example, China and HK declare that from now on, Hong Kong's electoral candidates will be chosen by the tyrants in Beijing. HK's citizens protest. HK's police forces brutalize the citizens.