INDIAN Government To Block 32 Websites For Hosting Terrorism Content Including Pastebin, GitHub And Vimeo.
These blocks is carried out the instruction of Department of Telecom(DOT). To reason listed websites blocked because they content from ISIS.
32 mention websites including most popular 000webhost, Pastebin, Github, Sourceforge, Vimeo and dailymotion websites have been blocked under Section 69A of IT Act 2000.
Pranesh Prakash, who is the Policy Director of Centre for Internet and Society has posted in tweet.
Insane! Govt orders blocking of 32 websites including @internetarchive @vimeo @github @pastebin #censorship #FoEx pic.twitter.com/F75ngSGohJ
— Pranesh Prakash (@pranesh_prakash) December 31, 2014
Pastebin is still blocked in India. We are getting many reports about this. The Indian government has blocked us,... http://t.co/6jqnHcgtIP
— Pastebin.com (@pastebin) December 26, 2014
National Head of IT Cell Shri Arvind Gupta confirm this news on Twitter.
The websites that have been blocked were based on an advisory by Anti Terrorism Squad, and were carrying Anti India content from ISIS. 1/2
— Arvind Gupta (@buzzindelhi) December 31, 2014
The sites that have removed objectionable content and/or cooperated with the on going investigations, are being unblocked. 2/2
— Arvind Gupta (@buzzindelhi) December 31, 2014
@pranesh_prakash @Vimeo @github @pastebin We've received many complaints from people in India who can't access http://t.co/rvOhn0KKJQ.
— Internet Archive (@internetarchive) December 31, 2014
SourceForge is an Open Source community resource dedicated to helping open source projects be as successful as possible.Whereas GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over seven million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
Vimeo and Dailymotion are video hosting websites are also blocked by Indian ISP. Pastebin is use only for text content also have been blocked.
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