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India Blocks Yahoo Groups Over Political Content

Posted by simoniker on from the brute-force-embargo dept.

Ryan Barrett writes "In an attempt to shut down the Yahoo Group of a separatist political movement, the Indian government's CERT organization ended up blocking its country from accessing Yahoo Groups as a whole. China's censorship of the Internet in the past few years has been unsettling, but most people have accepted it as a by-product of China's form of government. Given that India's form of government is clearly different, this is much more chilling."

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  1. Irony by (54)T-Dub · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This obscure seperatist group is no longer so obscure. I'm interested to see how this pans out in a democracy. Will the people be so mad that they can't use yahoo that they will demand change? Will this actually increase the interest in this seperatist group?

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    1. Re:Irony by Lawbeefaroni · · Score: 4, Interesting

      You know, the funny thing is how easy it would have been to end the group. Instead of blocking it, they could have just had a crew of about 10 or so people (outsourced to the US of course) sign up to the group under 100 or so names and just crap it out. Make it all noise and no signal and just kill it. With 24 legit users and 80 fake, government users, 20 government trolls it wouldn't last long. At the same time they would be monitoring it.

      What they did do was about the worst thing they could.

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  2. NNTP bittorrent news proxy? by t0qer · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I've been toying around with this idea for a while, basically all I have now is a hacked stupid ass script that decodes yenc encoded binaries from a paticular newsgroup, creates a .torrent hash on the message, then seeds the message with btdownloadheadless. (I did this so some friends on a different ISP that didn't carry the paticular group could reap it's rich rewards)

    Why can't the same principal with web boards be applied with bittorrent? Simply wget the page you want, create a .torrent hash, seed.

    (runs off to script)

  3. A Simple question to my Wise American Friends by teetam · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Consider the following scenario:
    1. Some country, say Elbonia, legalizes something that is illegal in USA. Say, child pron. I know it is a stretch but bear with me.
    2. Should American ISPs block this site or not? If not, given that the Web is a big, linked document, an American citizen might land there and thereby, commit a crime!!!

    What is the correct, free response to such a scenario?

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