This article[1] highlights the ridiculously regressive arguments given by the Indian ISPs against net neutrality, as reflected from the TRAI’s consultation paper:
1. OTTs negatively affect our revenue
2. OTT apps use very less data
3. OTTs earn too much
4. Net neutrality is already dead
5. Compression algorithms further reduce our profits
6. Too much freedom of expression is bad
Here's how the telecom regulatory authority of India defines OTT:
"The term over-the-top (OTT) refers to applications and services which are accessible over the internet and ride on operators’ networks offering internet access services e.g. social networks, search engines, amateur video aggregation sites etc. The best known examples of OTT are Skype, Viber, WhatsApp, Chat On, Snapchat, Instagram, Kik, Google Talk, Hike, Line, WeChat, Tango, e-commerce sites (Amazon, Flipkart etc.),Ola, Facebook messenger, Black Berry Messenger, iMessage, online video games and movies (Netflix, Pandora)."
BSNL's DNS server replying with "SOA localhost. root.localhost." to all of the blocked domains (except sourceforge.net and atnsoft.com).
# 218.248.255.211 is the default DNS server for BSNL DSL customers in Maharashtra, India
$ date
Thu Jan 1 20:21:02 IST 2015
$ dig +nocmd +nostats +nocomments @218.248.255.211 -f blocked.txt
;justpaste.it. IN A
justpaste.it. 86400 IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. 1997022700 28800 14400 3600000 86400
;hastebin.com. IN A
hastebin.com. 86400 IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. 1997022700 28800 14400 3600000 86400
;codepad.org. IN A
codepad.org. 86400 IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. 1997022700 28800 14400 3600000 86400
;pastie.org. IN A
pastie.org. 86400 IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. 1997022700 28800 14400 3600000 86400
;pastee.org. IN A
pastee.org. 86400 IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. 1997022700 28800 14400 3600000 86400
;paste2.org. IN A
paste2.org. 86400 IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. 1997022700 28800 14400 3600000 86400
;slexy.org. IN A
slexy.org. 86400 IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. 1997022700 28800 14400 3600000 86400
;paste4btc.com. IN A
paste4btc.com. 86400 IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. 1997022700 28800 14400 3600000 86400
;0bin.net. IN A
0bin.net. 86400 IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. 1997022700 28800 14400 3600000 86400
;www.heypasteit.com. IN A
heypasteit.com. 86400 IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. 1997022700 28800 14400 3600000 86400
;sourceforge.net. IN A
sourceforge.net. 154 IN A 216.34.181.60
sourceforge.net. 85923 IN NS ns4.p03.dynect.net.
sourceforge.net. 85923 IN NS ns3.p03.dynect.net.
sourceforge.net. 85923 IN NS ns1.p03.dynect.net.
sourceforge.net. 85923 IN NS ns2.p03.dynect.net.
ns1.p03.dynect.net. 85918 IN A 208.78.70.3
ns2.p03.dynect.net. 172323 IN A 204.13.250.3
ns3.p03.dynect.net. 85918 IN A 208.78.71.3
ns4.p03.dynect.net. 172323 IN A 204.13.251.3
;atnsoft.com. IN A
atnsoft.com. 14135 IN A 192.185.225.228
atnsoft.com. 86135 IN NS ns6616.hostgator.com.
atnsoft.com. 86135 IN NS ns6615.hostgator.com.
ns6615.hostgator.com. 172452 IN A 192.185.225.220
ns6616.hostgator.com. 172452 IN A 192.185.225.221
;archive.org. IN A
archive.org. 86400 IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. 1997022700 28800 14400 3600000 86400
;www.hpage.com. IN A
hpage.com. 86400 IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. 1997022700 28800 14400 3600000 86400
;www.ipage.com. IN A
ipage.com. 86400 IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. 1997022700 28800 14400 3600000 86400
;www.webs.com. IN A
webs.com. 86400 IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. 1997022700 28800 14400 3600000 86400
;www.weebly.com. IN A
weebly.com. 86400 IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. 1997022700 28800 14400 3600000 86400
;www.000webhost.com. IN A
000webhost.com. 86400 IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. 1997022700 28800 14400 3600000 86400
;www.freehosting.com. IN A
freehosting.com. 86400 IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. 1997022700 28800 14400 3600000 86400
;vimeo.com. IN A
vimeo.com. 86400 IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. 1997022700 28800 14400 3600000 86400
;www.dailymotion.com. IN A
dailymotion.com. 86400 IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. 1997022700 28800 14400 3600000 86400
;pastebin.com. IN A
pastebin.com. 86400 IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. 1997022700 28800 14400 3600000 86400
;gist.github.com. IN A
gist.github.com. 86400 IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. 1997022700 28800 14400 3600000 86400
;www.ipaste.eu. IN A
ipaste.eu. 86400 IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. 1997022700 28800 14400 3600000 86400
;thesnippetapp.com. IN A
thesnippetapp.com. 86400 IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. 1997022700 28800 14400 3600000 86400
;snipt.net. IN A
snipt.net. 86400 IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. 1997022700 28800 14400 3600000 86400
;tny.cz. IN A
tny.cz. 86400 IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. 1997022700 28800 14400 3600000 86400
;github.com. IN A
github.com. 86400 IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. 1997022700 28800 14400 3600000 86400
;snipplr.com. IN A
snipplr.com. 86400 IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. 1997022700 28800 14400 3600000 86400
;termbin.com. IN A
termbin.com. 86400 IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. 1997022700 28800 14400 3600000 86400
;www.snippetsource.net. IN A
snippetsource.net. 86400 IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. 1997022700 28800 14400 3600000 86400
;cryptbin.com. IN A
cryptbin.com. 86400 IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. 1997022700 28800 14400 3600000 86400
holy fucking shit is this actually happening. has it happened before? how long do these last?
By the way, I'm not in India, but still, surely this is not going to last? I mean, why have they not blocked youtube and stackoverflow, do they not have integrity? So like is everyone in india going to use gitlab and ptpb.pw now?
Edit:
May as fucking well block google right? Do they not understand the importance of github.com and all the wealth of software that it contains? I mean yeah, centralization of lots of important stuff is bad for this exact reason, but at this stage, blocking github has got to really backfire here...
India has software developers right, this has to royally fuck a lot of them and their development environments am I wrong?
Remaining silent is as good as communicating one bit of information.
Even a 0-byte file has metadata. Even if it is 0-byte long, GCC knows that it is reading an input file. How did it come to know? Because you communicated some amount of information by initiating the compilation.
> When you allow for context, information density can approach infinity.
I absolutely agree with you. You are my hero.
The amount of information stored in an object (which is capable of storing at least one bit of information in traditional sense) depends on the size of the context.
If the object is not even capable of storing one bit of information in traditional sense, then the amount of information that can be stored is zero.
And for all objects that can store one bit or more of information in traditional sense, the total amount of information that can be stored in it = the number of bits it can store + the number of bits that can be stored in rest of the universe (context). So any one bit object can store the same amount of information that can be stored in the entire universe.
And if it turns out that our universe is enclosed in yet another larger universe, then you have to include that as part of the context as well.
"The [Indian] Union Health Ministry is considering a new National Antibiotics Policy for the country to handle increasing antibiotics resistance in the country."
The situation is like the chicken-and-egg dilemma.
Definition 1:
'Good producer' is a producer that accepts bitcoins.
Definition 2:
If all the good producers together produce all that you need, then the number of producers is 'enough'.
Definition 3:
'Ideal state' is when enough good producers exist.
Theorem 1:
A producer will accept bitcoins if either of the following is true:
i. Ideal state has been attained.
ii. There exists exchanges that trade you physical currency against bitcoins.
Observation:
Once we are in the ideal state, we no longer need to have bitcoins converted to physical currency. So we don't need the exchanges to exist forever. We need exchanges only till enough producers have started accepting bitcoins.
Except the only ideal state is when you can buy anything in the world, not just "enough."
The great thing about good currencies is they can be exchanged for almost any currency and therefor can be used to purchase almost any good or service that is for sale.
