Duck duck go banned in India?(twitter.com)
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Duck duck go banned in India?
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I heard India has been banning a lot of Chinese sites, which makes sense, since India and China have been fighting. It is normal to restrict trade with your enemies.
But what other motivations are there for India to ban things? Is there general censorship or something?
But what other motivations are there for India to ban things? Is there general censorship or something?
I worked on a site targeting an Indian user base for a bit, and in order to be allowed to operate in India, we had to partner with an Indian company that basically had veto power over any part of the process.
I think this is a smart strategy. Keep in mind, India gained independence in 1947--there are people alive (although not many) who remember India being a colony. Indians are very aware of the post-colonial activities of Western powers in Africa and South America, and have good reasons to be worried about cultural and economic imperialism. By maintaining tight control over what foreign businesses are allowed to operate in India, they can limit what power foreign nations have in India, keeping wealth and influence firmly within their borders.
Americans like to think that we're the benevolent leaders of the free world and that we've always been a great help to people in other countries, but this is not the case. From assassinations, funding coups, embargoes, and direct invasions, the US has not always been a positive influence on the third world. India is right to be suspicious of American businesses in India.
I think this is a smart strategy. Keep in mind, India gained independence in 1947--there are people alive (although not many) who remember India being a colony. Indians are very aware of the post-colonial activities of Western powers in Africa and South America, and have good reasons to be worried about cultural and economic imperialism. By maintaining tight control over what foreign businesses are allowed to operate in India, they can limit what power foreign nations have in India, keeping wealth and influence firmly within their borders.
Americans like to think that we're the benevolent leaders of the free world and that we've always been a great help to people in other countries, but this is not the case. From assassinations, funding coups, embargoes, and direct invasions, the US has not always been a positive influence on the third world. India is right to be suspicious of American businesses in India.
The US tried gunboat diplomacy in 1971 to deter India from stopping Pakistani genocide in Bangladesh. Just because our memories are short does not mean theirs are.
Most adult websites have been banned for quite a while now. Some random websites often get caught in the ban periodically. The Internet Archive was banned for a while. Iirc, Libgen was also banned once.
I've tried 4 ISP's in India, its loading on 3 of them, didn't load on jio. on one of the isp's, DUCK.com loaded but duckduckgo.com didn't.
Didn't load on Jio.
Not blocked here.
I'm from India as well. It's not blocked on Airtel broadband for me, but any requests to DuckDuckGo initially shows a DNS resolution failure (don't remember what the exact error was). And after 5-10 seconds, the page loads as expected.
I’m on Jio 4G. DDG has been inconsistent since yesterday. Now it’s not working at all.
It’s working with green-tunnel to bypass Jio’s SNI based blocking.
So surely, it’s blocked, not some server issues.
It’s working with green-tunnel to bypass Jio’s SNI based blocking.
So surely, it’s blocked, not some server issues.
Facebook is a minority shareholder in Jio. Perhaps they object to DuckDuckGo's privacy-friendly stance. Scumbags.