Duck duck go banned in India?

https://twitter.com/nimishdubey/status/1278289269648285696

by chetansjc • 6 years ago

17 15 6 years ago

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walt0• 6 years ago

Not blocked here.

AuthorizedCust• 6 years ago

Where's "here"?

taspeotis• 6 years ago

According to their comment history GP is in India.

309d9095• 6 years ago

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.

mukuz• 6 years ago

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.

yuchi2• 6 years ago

The name is capitalized as Duck Duck Go. If OP or a mod can fix this my (fictious) OCD can relax.

pionar• 6 years ago

It's actually DuckDuckGo, no spaces.

yuchi2• 6 years ago

Thank you. (My ocd is fake indeed)

squiggleblaz• 6 years ago

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?

puranjay• 6 years ago

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.

kerkeslager• 6 years ago

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.

fmajid2• 6 years ago

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.

man9988• 6 years ago

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.

sujal99• 6 years ago

Didn't load on Jio.

Duck duck go banned in India?

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