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.

Re:Holy shit

[pushing-robot]

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

Re:Holy shit

[Penguinisto]

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

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.

Indian programmers

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Slashdot is next

[Anonymous Coward]

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

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:at least not stackoverflow

[wisnoskij]

This question has be closed as Not Constructive.

Re:This is going to cripple their outsourcing

[Greyfox]

Yeah, I was just thinking, how are our outsourced contractors going to plagiarize code for their employers if India blocks all those web sites? Just when I was beginning to think the quality of work from those contractors couldn't get any worse...

Re:Yes, let's destroy our fastest growing industry

[perryizgr8]

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.

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.