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Russia has blocked access to GitHub after finding a text file in a repository entitled 'suicide.txt'. Surely this is pretext for Russia's continuing move towards isolation. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8692584
Techcrunch has Russia Blacklists, Blocks GitHub Over Pages That Refer To Suicide
Developers in Russia are putting up their feet today — that is, after they have finished stomping around in frustration for a little while. It’s emerged that Russia’s regulator RosComNadzor has blocked GitHub after the popular software and coding collaboration platform was found to be hosting content related to suicide — specifically, see this file that details 32 ways to kill yourself.
The “block” effectively amounts to an order to ISPs to restrict access to the site. And because GitHub works on HTTPS, providers can only comply by restricting access to the entire site, rather than individual pages. According to Russian blog Meduza, several leading ISPs have already complied with the order, including Beeline, MTS, MGTS and Megafon.
The block reignites the debate over how Russia’s government decides what is and what is not appropriate Internet content for people in Russia. The country’s firewall, when it was originally raised in 2012, was controversial not only because of concerns that it would be used against freedom of speech (especially in cases when that speech was critical of the state), but also because it was deemed to be too heavy-handed in how it would get implemented.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 05 2014, @04:08AM
There are good reasons to create a publicly accessible repository for your source code.
There are no good reasons to rely upon it as YOUR primary repository of source code.
Ancient sysadmin says, yet again, that you must identify ALL dependencies.
As if writing, or not writing, object-oriented code had anything to do with it!
Those whom do not study the lessons of history ... ah, fuck it. You'll figure it out.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 05 2014, @04:37AM
With git, every clone of the repository contains the entire backup (shallow clones excluded, but they get so little support they practically don't exist).
When GitHub goes down, it takes 5 mins to make a public repository on Gitorious or somewhere else, faster than that if you have a box everyone involved has ssh access to.
(Score: 2) by tonyPick on Friday December 05 2014, @09:39AM
With git, every clone of the repository contains the entire backup
Sort of - to get all the refs from the original you actually need to do a "git clone --mirror" (and most people don't...)