Multiple service providers are blocking DuckDuckGo in India(thenextweb.com) |
Multiple service providers are blocking DuckDuckGo in India(thenextweb.com) |
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Because there is precedent that the current govt bans everything that critizes them, people get hyper when some glitch happens.
then all the right wingers descend to blame the cynics 'oh they are anti national'
and cynics become worse cynics, 'see they ban everything and then abuse everyone who questions'
If changing DNS works, how is this blocked by the ISP? Seems to indicate there is some other technical problem. Treat the rest of the article, and specially with tweets, with skepticism.
Anecdotally, I had a cable service in Delhi where the provider started throttling me if I didn’t make any request to their dns server in some arbitrary time interval. So changing your dns might not be the fix (i fixed it by sending random queries to their server...).
...and in "HTTPS" pages "secured" by cloudflare. https://medium.com/@karthikb351/airtel-is-sniffing-and-censo...
Everyone accepts that it's pretty easy to bypass but it's considered "good enough".
You change your DNS, no longer see ISP's blacklist.
IIRC Cloudflare (1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1) also support encrypted DNS.
They don't understand a literal about technology. They want to protect citizen's privacy but they don't want to promote the thing that provides privacy.
Also, their official websites looks like they will die at any moment.
Edit: the site is accessible for me again at 14h30, Eastern time.
then their minions try to drown the voices of dissent online and offline by abusing dissenters or plain beating them up.
then the ultra right wing government arrests those who are beaten up under sedition, act of war against the state, keeps them in jail for 90+ days without filing an FIR and when they are released after 90days according the the law, they're arrested again on trumped up charges!
Note that r/India is very intolerant of views which are pro-India, and has consequently become an echo chamber for endia folk. I'd take anything coming out of this subred with a bucket of salt.
> Note that r/India is very intolerant of views which are pro-India
/r/india heavily skews liberal and anti-Modi. That is not the same thing as being intolerant of pro-India views.
Oh it is now anti Modi. I remember back in 2014 when every other comment and post was 'wow Modi will transform this country, Mumbai and Delhi will become New York'
I used to get banned just for asking 'how will he get the money to do so?' or for asking proof on past experiences as the PM's CM term of the state of Gujarat wasn't exactly as promising but /r/india had lost their mind worshipping Modi and hating Congress.
They now hate both Congress and BJP :D
This is the equivalent of 'works on my computer'
> Note that r/India is very intolerant of views which are pro-India
Pray tell me who gave you the authority of deciding who is pro-India and who is anti-India? Were your ancestors among Nehru/Gandhi/Bipin chandra/ other freedom fighters who gave their life for democracy?
Were your ancestors among the brilliant minds who drafted the ideology of this state to become a secular republic and not fall in the dictatorship trap like all ex British colonies except India have fallen into?
Who exactly do you think you are to distribute certificates of nationalism?
This is a big misconception in India. The URL blocking for the major part is ordered by courts and not the government - https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/ban-porn-sit...
I can't speak to TRAI and DOT involvement, but the statement that courts are not part of the "government" is an over-technical definition centered around Parliamentary technicalities that happen to use the word, and of limited utility here. The courts are very much part of the apparatus which governs the people of a nation.
Their followers who used to love transparency when opposition was in power are suddenly silent and hate transparency!
and their IT cell is actively sowing disinformation on online forums. You can see the comment history of some folks on this very discussion who are trying to divert attention by saying seemingly stupid things, but they are not stupid, they are brilliantly trying to sabotage questions.
Therefore, in this case, the term "government" is a better fit than "state".