India Blocks Code Sharing Websites On Anti-Terror Advisory

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."

Comments

Holy shit

[PrimeWaveZ]

Copy, paste, remove, delete?

This is why we invented nukes, people.

very dangerous kind of cut and paste services?

[wisnoskij]

"You can take code, cut it, paste it, remove it, delete it"
OH, the humanity!

Anonymously

[spauldo]

I'd request anonymity too, if I went around in public saying stupid crap like that.

Block Github?

[Anonymous Coward]

Clueless government machinery at work here. Someone needs to educate these idiots that "code" in this context means "sequence of instructions for the machine" and NOT "cipher instructions for the terrorists". Github is the last place in the world a terrorist would signup for. If terrorists thought logically, they wouldn't be terrorists in the first place.

Re:Facepalmingly incompetent ban, too

[rtb61]

This discussion itself is likely what the ban is all about. A test of the public's reaction to mass banning of a range of websites. What gets by, what gets resisted, who should they target first and, how should the list grow and expand. All about how they can regain control of public communications and put it back into the box of pay millions to play main stream media. Something that is being played out in every part of the globe from Australia to Russia, from India to the UK and, from China to the US. The strangling to death of net neutrality and the institution of censorship as the norm and you only have the right to express you opinion in the silence of the political wilderness and not in any publicly accessible forum.