India Orders 32 Websites Blocked, Including GitHub, Archive.Org, Pastebin

Re:India Orders 32 Websites Blocked, Including GitHub, Archi... by peferron on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @07:16PM (#8821689)

This slippery slope is exactly what happened in China.

- First, they block a few websites: no big deal, I'll just use a VPN.

- Then they block OpenVPN default port: no big deal, I'll just use another port or IPSec.

- Then international connections slow down to a crawl: no big deal, maybe they're not throttling but just having capacity issues, let's wait a bit see if it gets better.

Then one day your realize that what was at first a minor inconvenience is now wasting hours of your life and killing your productivity.

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Re:India Orders 32 Websites Blocked, Including GitHub, Archi... by netheril96 on Thursday January 01, 2015 @12:12AM (#8822234)

Yes, but we are powerless to change anything. It is not like that we can vote or have any voice in the governing of ourselves.

And even China doesn't block GitHub. It tried once, but backed down soon for unknown reasons.

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