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I just see two buttons: One that says "Log in", another that says "I'm not over 18"

Because that can be seen as a money making opportunity by one of their executives in future and the number of accounts that would need support could rise.

> There are several foreign channels that are banned in India including Al Jazeera and for very good reasons.

Al Jazeera isn't banned. In fact it is a free channel on most cable network providers

> Plus, I’m sure the West doesn’t get Russia Today or CCTV right now. nor India’s DD

Actually DD is also available in US, just like WION (another Indian news channel)

So you agree that tax officials are being used to harass them for the documentary?

> it could create communal disharmony and doesn't actually provide any further court admissible evidence.

I'll wait for these tax officials to raid OpIndia and SwarajyaMag's offices soon as well then.

I never understood the Indian ban. Aren't BBC documentaries available in the UK only anyways? Indian residents couldn't have accessed it without a VPN anyways.

> Why should a British funded propaganda machine be even allowed in a foreign country?

Same reason why any other foreign website is allowed in India or why other countries watch Bollywood movies. Globalization is a win-win for everyone. No country in the world is self-sustaining.

> the BBC think it is right and every other foreign country is wrong lOL

Actually that's what BJP thinks. Whenever anyone says anything against them, they are termed as a 'Conspiracy against the nation' or 'anti-national'. It is BJP who thinks they are right and everyone else is wrong, not the other way round :)

If other ISPs start following the same, you are right in saying I'm downplaying the situation.

But I also mentioned it is unlikely to happen since all major IT Consultancy firms in the country rely on GitHub for their work in one way or another. And not just with their code but also with their client's code.

> What do you mean blown out of proportion?

It is on the HN front page :)

Indian here. This seems to be blown a bit out of proportion. I am residing in a Tier-1 city in India and have an internet connection with a local ISP. I am able to access the content on the supposed blocked domain, so this is probably one ISP proactively blocking the domain without it being formally asked to do so (court order can't be ISP-specific AFAIK).

I work in a large consultancy firm and have friends in other Indian IT consultancy firms. GitHub is very commonly used across these firms for quite large projects and blocking that domain would certainly slow down the work of thousands of employees across the country instantly. No way can this block be carried ahead.

I was about to say, this reaffirms the word 'mouthbreather'

Not until we can have a browser within this docker container

The company named 2K pulls this every year where they disable the multiplayer and even single-player story-mode of their NBA 2K games that are less than 2 years old (they turned off NBA 2K20 servers in Dec 2021)