Govt bans popular file-sharing site WeTransfer in India

[kidney]

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has banned the popular file-sharing site WeTransfer.com. According to a news report by Mumbai Mirror, DoT issued a notice to internet service providers across the country to ban three URLs. The first two notices asked to ban two specific URLs on the website whereas the third notice was to ban the entire WeTransfer website.

 

WeTransfer is a popular file sharing website on the web. It has millions of users across the world but the company has garnered higher popularity in India during the ongoing lockdown days. The website allows users to send files to up to 2GB straight to the recipient's email without the need to create a separate account for it. While the paid plan allows file-transfer of higher capacities, most of the users' job is done by the free plan. After the ease of use, this is the second reason why the website has become so popular in the country.

It is unclear as to why the government has banned the website and what exactly did it find objectionable on the page but for now most of the leading ISPs have blocked the access of WeTransfer for their users.

[xano917]

China site kada ? Tappuledu 

[kidney]

10 minutes ago, xano917 said:

China site kada ? Tappuledu 

WeTransfer is a Dutch internet-based computer file transfer service. The company was founded in Amsterdam (the Netherlands) by Bas Beerens and Nalden.^[3] The core service is free, with more features available for premium accounts.

Bans in India aren't new. Many websites have been banned in India. In fact in one of the Lok Sabha session of 2019, the ministry of information and technology showed that there had been a 442 per cent rise in the number of URLs blocked in India. These URLs have either been found malware, or encouraging pornography of any kind or a threat to national security. The ban applies to the entire website. WeTransfer is a file-sharing website that send files from one to another and has no access to the content of the file. WeTransfer is a just a carrier and it shouldn't be banned for some content that has uploaded by its users. Yes, the site can be used for sending pornographic content as well which is the reason given by DoT but then again it is the users and not the website behind

[jalsa01]

3 minutes ago, kidney said:

WeTransfer is a Dutch internet-based computer file transfer service. The company was founded in Amsterdam (the Netherlands) by Bas Beerens and Nalden.^[3] The core service is free, with more features available for premium accounts.

Bans in India aren't new. Many websites have been banned in India. In fact in one of the Lok Sabha session of 2019, the ministry of information and technology showed that there had been a 442 per cent rise in the number of URLs blocked in India. These URLs have either been found malware, or encouraging pornography of any kind or a threat to national security. The ban applies to the entire website. WeTransfer is a file-sharing website that send files from one to another and has no access to the content of the file. WeTransfer is a just a carrier and it shouldn't be banned for some content that has uploaded by its users. Yes, the site can be used for sending pornographic content as well which is the reason given by DoT but then again it is the users and not the website behind

May be vadi hosting servers out of india unnayemo..

[afacc123]

The Governament should identify all websites that directly or indirectly support the Chinese factor

[kidney]

1 minute ago, afacc123 said:

The Governament should identify all websites that directly or indirectly support the Chinese factor

ala aiythe - ind lo 60% mobiles comes under ban....  cheap smart phones ani market lo sagam china vallave

[afacc123]

7 minutes ago, kidney said:

ala aiythe - ind lo 60% mobiles comes under ban....  cheap smart phones ani market lo sagam china vallave

bend before chinese or show them the power of India

that is the best route I think without hurting, see china they control everything to the core apps/products/websites . communism rocks anipistadi appudappudu

[johnydanylee]

Copyright infringement URL's ni ban chesthe saripotundi gaa...motham website down cheyatam why???

Google drive lo kooda chaala mandi movies/TV shows share chestunnaru gaa..ippudu Google ni ban chestaara??

[jetwings]

1 hour ago, kidney said:

WeTransfer is a Dutch internet-based computer file transfer service. The company was founded in Amsterdam (the Netherlands) by Bas Beerens and Nalden.^[3] The core service is free, with more features available for premium accounts.

Bans in India aren't new. Many websites have been banned in India. In fact in one of the Lok Sabha session of 2019, the ministry of information and technology showed that there had been a 442 per cent rise in the number of URLs blocked in India. These URLs have either been found malware, or encouraging pornography of any kind or a threat to national security. The ban applies to the entire website. WeTransfer is a file-sharing website that send files from one to another and has no access to the content of the file. WeTransfer is a just a carrier and it shouldn't be banned for some content that has uploaded by its users. Yes, the site can be used for sending pornographic content as well which is the reason given by DoT but then again it is the users and not the website behind

please ban gmail, facebook, twitter, whatsapp,  etc also being used to share corn...

actually either the ISPs or laptops should be banned with the same logic, if there is no internet nobody can send/rcv corn...

uh the govt should understand diff between banning corn site and banning the medium..

wetranfer is a good service used by many.. esp developers to share large files...

[vaakel_saab]

paniki rani muchattlu anni

[Anta Assamey]

[Catalpha]

2 hours ago, afacc123 said:

The Governament should identify all websites that directly or indirectly support the Chinese factor

Then tiktok should be banned. In the US, tiktok cannot be installed even on personal phones if anyone in your family is a civil servant. 

[afacc123]

6 hours ago, Catalpha said:

Then tiktok should be banned. In the US, tiktok cannot be installed even on personal phones if anyone in your family is a civil servant. 

How are you aware of so much @Catalpha sometimes comments like these worry me

[Catalpha]

On 5/31/2020 at 3:16 AM, afacc123 said:

How are you aware of so much @Catalpha sometimes comments like these worry me

When someone in your family is a federal employee, you would know. 

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/12/senate-bill-would-ban-tiktok-on-federal-employees-work-phones-126727

[LadiesTailor]

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