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India blocks GitHub, after lobbying done by copyright trolls (torrentfreak.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Who cares if nobody can work, the important is that those illegal streams are blocked

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

So... What's the purpose of the ban then?
Is this but just totally stupid and implemented completely useless, because people in power can't grasp what they are deciding on?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

That is why IP/DNS blocks should only be deployed to protect the end-user. Never to enforce some kind of law...

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

And let people disable it if they don't want to be protected/babied.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Well... yes

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