VideoLAN to India: If you love FOSS so much, why have you blocked downloads of our tools?
Developers of the open source VideoLAN media player have challenged India’s government to explain why the project’s web site has been blocked.in August 2022, the videolan.org site has been unavailable in India since March 2022, meaning the official source of downloads not available. No official explanation for the block has been offered.
As VLC is open source the occasional clone infected with malware has appeared – with Chinese actors suspected as the source. India has banned many Chinese apps on national security grounds. But VideoLAN’s home base is France, not the Middle Kingdom. And VLC is not known or rated to pose a sterner risk of carrying either malware or the kind of nasty content India’s government likes to ban. The argument has also been made that driving would-be users to third party download sites increases the chances of poisoned clones being passed off as legitimate, making a ban on security grounds ineffective.
Activists protested the blocking of the project’s site and now one such group – India’s Internet Freedom Foundation – has that it helped VideoLAN to write a letter to India’s Ministry of Communications and Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology that demands an explanation for the blocking of videolan.org.
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