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GitHub, Pastebin, Imgur blocked in India

10 points by athyuttamre ↗ HN
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

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ChrisGranger
What's the point of blocking Pastebin? There are dozens of websites just like it.
cnvogel
Appearing to do something against cyber terrorism, as some list of usernames, passwords and credit card numbers have shown up there in the past.
kp666
pastie.org is blocked as well.

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

roymj88
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.
known
Feudalism + Voting in elections = India;