DoT blocks Pastebin, Archive.org, GitHub, Vimeo, Dailymotion, and many other sites

India blocks Pastebin, Archive.org, GitHub, Vimeo, Dailymotion, and many other sites - GSMArena Blog

India’s DoT or Department of Telecom has randomly ordered internet service providers across the country to block a long list of websites. The names include the likes of Pastebin, Archive.org, GitHub, Vimeo, Dailymotion, and many others.

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Many of the names in the list are sites meant for pasting and sharing text files. Why exactly these sites are being blocked is not yet know. Depending upon your area and ISP, some sites may or may not be blocked but the DoT order is in effect regardless.

It’s an unruly form of censorship, and not the first of its kind in India. Most of the times it rises out of something that seemingly offends someone being posted on one of these sites by someone, causing this sort of ignorant knee-jerk reaction blocking the entire site by the DoT and the people in charge who generally don’t have any idea of how the internet works.

Hopefully, this is temporary and access to the sites is restored soon.

Are they high on pot? :banghead:

Following an order issued by the Department of Telecom in India, ISPs have blocked 32 sites including*Vimeo,*Dailymotion,*GitHub*and*Pastebinacross the country.

Users across India have*complained about being unable to access*the aforementioned sites and many others. Today,*Centre for Internet & Society*director*Pranesh Prakash*was among the first to share the circular that went round to local ISPs on Dec 17 demanding that they block access to multiple sites.

The availability of these sites is currently varied across the country, depending on whether the ISPs that operate in different service areas have taken action to comply with the order.

Indian ruling party BJP’s National Head*Arvind Guptaconfirmed the block order via Twitter, citing ‘anti-India content’ hosted on those sites from terrorist outfit ISIS:

While Gupta claims that those sites which remove the objectionable content in question will be unblocked, the block order is problematic for a number of reasons: it doesn’t clearly state to ISPs why they have to block these sites and for how long; furthermore, the blocks are site-wide and affect users who depend on these online services for work.

In addition, no statements were issued by the Indian government authorities to the public informing them of the ban until the circular was leaked today.

We’ve reached out to Vimeo and Github for comment on whether the sites*were indeed contacted by local authorities and asked to take down content, and will update this post when we hear back.

-- 32 Sites Blocked in India Over Content from ISIS

Pea sized brain dumba$$es sitting in DoT, how they hell is this gonna stop ISIS?

Da fcuk

I hope anonymous hack the DoT sites and takes them down. Blocking entire sites :facepalm:

are they smoking horse poop or what?

people act as per their IQ

I didn't know that I was living in China.

Pastebin is blocked, i am sad

some of my project information i saved there for quick reference while working in different terminals

Me not affected right now

Anyone encountering these blocks?

^For me only pastebin is blocked

pastebin is blocked oh man come on. Why the heck they did this I mean s**t man. :evil:

pastebin works fine here on airtel bb.

Nerevarine said:
Pastebin is blocked, i am sad

some of my project information i saved there for quick reference while working in different terminals

Have you tried switching to Google DNS?

i am using Google DNS right now

Nerevarine said:
i am using Google DNS right now

That's sad. So far everything is working for me. Just to be sure, try pinging pastebin.com and see which IP address it tries connecting to.

Are these guys Idiot? :O

Pastebin? Github? Seriously?

190.93.242.15

this is the IP i get, directly accessing it, gives Direct IP access not allowed

already tried *pastebin.com, doesnt work..
i tried a proxy and it is working

OMG These don't work on BSNL too

Still working fine for Airtel.

i wonder when they will block the whole outside india internet and will force us to stay confined within ourselves.

this is worse than china, walking backwards into the iron curtain.....

:evil:

Mudi govt. just went full retard.

Modi is high on 'Make In India' campaign. Those MFs blocked Github.

This is awful, censorship at its worst..

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Some sites okay (I mean from those idiots' perspective) like Vimeo, but why on earth would someone block Github is completely beyond me :!:

WTF is this sh*t?

Tor Tor Tor Tor Tor Tor

And I thought censorship was gonna end with the end of Kapil $hitbal's reign :/

Still blocked for me. Baffling why government banned such sites. No matter which government, the consumers eventually suffers here. What next, ban Google too..

everything working fine here on airtel

some sites are claiming it was due to ISIS propaganda. Can't this be taken down by take down notice. Most of the sites are very active in removing these videos if deemed offensive. Why ban the whole site??

Sites opening with proxy though.

why archive.org haha

Guys try proxy extension Hola unblocker

yeah proxy worked.

D

github still unblocked for me. I guess quite a few ISPs blocked since it's new year.

Can access GitHub with Google DNS but not pastebin.

(BSNL BB)

W

pastebin currently working fine on mtnl 3g.

For those who cant access these sites, use tor browser

T

This is BS.... soon they're gonna block Google,Fb, whatsapp,twitter as ISIS content is there too :banghead:

theterminator said:
This is BS.... soon they're gonna block Google,Fb, whatsapp,twitter as ISIS content is there too

Don't worry, you'd still be able to visit Modi's page. :wink:

No matter who blocks what, we'll be able to access it anyhow.

ban lifted

So India is going to be next N. Korea or china?

adityak469 said:
ban lifted

Doesn't look like it. Yesterday I changed my DNS to default because of problems with internet connectivity. Just now I tried visiting github and got a 'server not found' error. Switched back to Google DNS and everything is back to normal.