In India, blocked more than 30 sites

Access to some of them has now been restored.

Some media reports that more than 290 million Internet users in India have lost access to 32 sites. Among them are important and popular projects: GitHub, Pastebin, Vimeo video hosting, the world famous “ Internet archive ”. The reason for blocking is the use of these services by the propaganda of the Islamic state.

Twitter user Pranesh Prakash lists blocked resources.



As you can see, the sites from the list were not created to promote extremism and fuel conflicts. These are the usual services filled by users, mainly sites for hosting text or code. Due to the placement of some prohibited content, they were completely blocked.
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Access to Gist GitHub , Weebly, Vimeo and Dailymotion video hosting sites has already been restored. But the majority (28) remain inaccessible, among them, SourceForge and a huge variety of various services offered by the opportunity to exchange code.

On December 17, the Department of Telecommunications of India issued a warning to Internet providers about the need to close access to 32 sites on the basis of Article 69A of the Information Technology Act of 2000. The reason for the inclusion in the list is to post jihadist propaganda .

The first blocking noticed Pastebin on December 19 last year.

It is stated that the sites that will cooperate and remove the problematic content will be unlocked.

Internet users from India have already begun to actively discuss locks and look for ways to bypass them .

In June 2014, a court order in India blocked access to 472 file sharing sites, including Google Docs and The Pirate Bay. Then the reason was a complaint from Sony Entertainment: the company's files were stolen as a result of hacking and quickly began to spread on the Web.