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India Blocks Code Sharing Websites On Anti-Terror Advisory

Posted by samzenpus on from the no-code-for-you dept.

darkstar019 writes The Indian government has banned websites under the pretext that ISIS is using them for anti-Indian purposes. The list includes code sharing websites like Pastebin, Github and Sourceforge. As of now, these websites are still up. From the article: "Officials from the department of Information Technology and the department of telecom were not available for comment. 'These are all providing very dangerous kind of cut and paste services..You can take code, cut it, paste it, remove it, delete it,' said one government official who requested anonymity."

6 of 78 comments (clear)

  1. India, tech savior of the world. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah. These people think github is for terrorists. This is who you are outsourcing all your work to. Fucking brilliant.

  2. Indian programmers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    What a surprise; the best vector for attacking Indians is via copy & paste code snippets.

  3. Slashdot is next by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm going to use Slashdot for anti-Indian purposes and maybe get this site blocked as well.

  4. Re:Holy shit by pushing-robot · · Score: 3, Funny

    They're just trying to remove crud from the web. Is that so wrong?

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  5. Re:Holy shit by Penguinisto · · Score: 4, Funny

    With Github and Sourceforge cut off, that's about what, 1/4 of their coding output right there?

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  6. Re:at least not stackoverflow by wisnoskij · · Score: 4, Funny

    This question has be closed as Not Constructive.

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