Indian Govt order bans 32 sites including Archive.org, GitHub, Pastebin, Vimeo

Context: Apparently some users were hosting pro-IS content on these sites [1]

This smacks of incompetence and idiocy. It is clear that a lot of people in the government do not understand how the internet works, and what these sites do. (They probably do not understand that these sites contain user generated content)

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/31/indian-government-censorsht...

Fortunately these blocks are just DNS blocks at the ISP level. I just pointed machine to use the google DNS service and everything works fine.