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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."
Copy, paste, remove, delete?
This is why we invented nukes, people.
When developing FOSS is a crime, only criminals will develop FOSS.
"You can take code, cut it, paste it, remove it, delete it"
OH, the humanity!
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
I'd request anonymity too, if I went around in public saying stupid crap like that.
Those who can't do, teach. Those who can't teach either, do tech support.
Yeah. These people think github is for terrorists. This is who you are outsourcing all your work to. Fucking brilliant.
What a surprise; the best vector for attacking Indians is via copy & paste code snippets.
I'm going to use Slashdot for anti-Indian purposes and maybe get this site blocked as well.
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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.
Now THAT wold be serious.
Usual outsourced programming involves finding chunks of vaguely related existing code, smashing them together, beating on them till they compile, calling it done.
If this includes StackExchange they'll be completely dead in the water.
The Indian government has banned websites under the pretext that ISIS is using them for anti-Indian purposes.
A pretext is a fake reason, not simply a reason you take issue with.
Also, from the article:
Websites like Pastebin don't host any content but are a platform for users to paste text.
How does Pastebin not host content? That's exactly what it exists to do, isn't it? In pretty much the purest possible form.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
Hey, the block will take about a week to get enforced here! I can still access each one of those at my home, office and mobile. India is slow. And mark my words, nobody gives two shits about this block. Those who care about github, will still be able to access it. At least I will. We have had dailymotion blocked for months. I didn't even know until yesterday when everybody went up in arms about github. Because dailymotion never went down for me.
Incompetency pervades everything here. The ones ordering the block did it because they are incompetent. The ones supposed to enforce it are also incompetent.
Wealth is the gift that keeps on giving.
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.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen