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GitHub, Pastebin, Imgur blocked in India
10 points by athyuttamre on Dec 30, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 8 comments
The Department of Telecommunications is blocking these sites through ISPs. Using Google DNS, OpenDNS or a VPN seems to be a solution for now.

https://twitter.com/search?q=github%20india&src=typd



India is second most dangerous country for journalists, after Syria http://www.trust.org/item/20130820143515-t7ap0

Why are you surprised at http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/Pastebin-D...



Quite ridiculous! Wikipedia goes on and off for me here and i was thinking some network problem. But now its pretty much related i guess.


What's the point of blocking Pastebin? There are dozens of websites just like it.


Appearing to do something against cyber terrorism, as some list of usernames, passwords and credit card numbers have shown up there in the past.


Feudalism + Voting in elections = India;


pastie.org is blocked as well.

github is still up for me. using https + google dns


it is accessible for me.




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