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Is your govt filtering the internet?
In Pakistan we have a govt authority named PTA(Pakistan Telecommunication Authority) which is in no way answerable to anybody. They can block any site for whatever reason they want. They don't have to explain anything to anybody. They have literally blocked hundreds of thousands of sites for porn/blasphemy/anything they think is inappropriate etc. That is more than half the internet.
Isn't it our most basic human right to have access to internet and communicate? Why do they think that they can change opinions of people by censoring the Internet?
I want to ask you in which country you live and is your govt censoring internet? If yes which sites? I am curious which country has least internet censorship?
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Youtube was blocked in Turkey for 2 years one time.
Here in Norway we have a child porn filter, but just now the government do not block other things (as we know of). But they are trying to convince the courts and the people that we need more blocks, for copyrights etc.
I am pretty sure the rights of Pakistani citizens are pretty far down on your governments agenda... That being said, at times i believe the US government does not really care about its citizens rights either, or at least the liberals.
Good luck bro.
I need to get around to blocking ALL traffic from US, Russia, and China from my servers. I wish the govt did filter some of what comes in.
most governments probably wish the internet had never happened
hidden or deep web
if you try this, use vpn and tor to access.
Turkey
A new bill just (literally just) passed "parliament", which will allow TIB (Telecommunications Communication Presidency) to block any site without court order immediately. We're way past "porn rights" etc at this point. The government wants to stop any news reports, articles etc that are against it, at ground zero. TIB also serves like UK's GCHQ does for listening in on people.
Thanks to all European governments who did not back Gezi protestors, especially one Mr Cameron, PM of UK, who announced support for Erdogan during Gezi protests, saying "let's not forget how Turkey has come a long way under Erdogan". We've developed economically, but we're regressing mentally everyday. TRT (State TV channel) was banned from airing Figure Skating from the upcoming Sochi olympics, because it's too "revealing".
Every government filters internet in some way. If they say they don't, they're lying.
VPN is your best friend use it and enjoy internet.
A VPN is only secure as the company hosting it. If they keep logs, then there is no point in having a VPN in the first place.
North Korea is the worst, then there is a great wall firewall from china
@TheCTS depends on the situation. If you're doing something that's legal in U.S. standards, but just problematic within your country; and your country doesn't have the cojones to make a foreign VPN company spill its secrets, that'd be enough for many purposes.
Of course it's always better practice to not make crappy non-secure VPN companies profit.
http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/11237/internet-censorship-in-different-countries
Chinese Mainland:
The Great Fire Wall, you know.
What it do are:
Blocking:
Domains & IP addresses related to anti-government;
pron;
most of the media;
file-share services(e.g., blocking Dropbox and Google Drive);
Video sharing services(e.g., Youtube, Vimeo)
SNS websites(Facebook, Twitter)
and more
interferencing:
VPN connections(via PPTP, OpenVPN, sometimes L2TP and Cisco IPSEC are included);
SSL over 443;
SSH tunnel;
and all the ways that can be used to bypass the censorship.
(Notice: If a IP address or domain name is reported, detected(automatically by the Firewall) or believed to be used for "illegal activities" that I mentioned above, the Firewall would block the address.)
Canada:
UofT: Believed that keeps a log that records all the meta data of traffics.
That 's why I am behind a SSH tunnel now...
Above are what Chinese Gov't do for blocking oversea services.
For those service in China:
Regular Website: Domain name require a pre-document, Beian(bad English, but this is something that nowhere in the world has but China, so basically there's no translation that has the same meaning of the word), which requires the owner 's information including name, ID number(we use ID card here in China), photo, name and purpose of the site to be logged and approved, or there 's almost NO WAY to make it visitable via 80 port, for ISPs are using a whitelist, without which all the traffic will be blocked. No need to mention that all the traffic, including the content, is monitored. Should the police (sometime the MSS-Ministry of State Security of the People's Republic of China) want to locate you, they can do it in seconds as long as the officer has the permission.(In fact, if the target is only to do background check, no approval is required- even from their boss.) It is known that every large internet-related company 's log data are accessible by the Gov't, and if not, the police can require them to hand the log in. I am sure no one would ever dare to hide or erase these data.
BBS: A special approval for BBS is required for larger ones, for monitoring and deleting posts so this job can be done by the Gov't directly.
SNS: Almost the same as the BBS. For posts(say, Weibo) includes sensitive words(mostly political-related), a manual check, or direct delete would be required or performed. And they can just ban your account temporary or permanently.
Video-sharing website: A special licence is required.
I mean, freedom of speech is a nice right. For those who lives in "freedom countries", remember to keep it up.
in Sri Lanka, yes ...
No blocking or filtering whatsoever in Austria (as far as I'm aware of), however telecoms providers are required to comply with rigid data retention laws, i.e. all communication metadata - landline, mobile (incl. location data), short messages, email, fax, web access, VoIP, WiFi logins, even unsuccessful dial attempts etc. - has to be stored for at least 6 months in theory (in reality most likely indefinitely) and handed over to the authorities whenever they ask for it. The same happens even with the postal service (letters, parcels, packets). The only IP/content block I ever heard of was that of kino.to in parts of UPC's cable network after a specific court order forced by a content owner pressure group, which attracted major media attention and was effective for exactly one day (then the site operators just changed IP and domain). So it's basically free speech but total surveillance, not only by the NSA but also the country's own government.
In Italy access providers block IPs and domains that are on a central government block list which mostly reflects individual court orders regarding specific sites/domains. They also seem to perform DPI from time to time in some networks - e.g. the piratebay could not be reached even via secure vpn for some time from some networks (which I found rather unusual), while it was accessible via encrypted VPN from others but blocked when encryption was turned off.
Yes, from residential UK connections; mobile carriers have had censoring in place for the last 3-5yrs.
"Dude this one time..."
"This Video is not available...mimimimi" sometimes in music videos but i dont care have enought vps to break every censorship.
Btw TRT denied this and say they will broadcast.
http://www.trtturk.com.tr/haber/trtden-sociye-sansur-haberlerine-yanit.html
hahah don't even get me started on New Zealand's GCSB and the '5 eyes'
great little spying ring between, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
started just after world war 2 to have a spy-a-thon on the world..intercepting internet, mobile etc etc
Yup, the Dutch government filters The Pirate Bay, for example.
And they seem to be (at least partially) succeeding.
in Mexico...
wich government?
That's not government blocking. That's just standard licensing. Long gone are the days where cross-jurisdiction enforcement was expensive and not worth it. You can thank the internet for that :P
thepiratebay is blocked by some ISPs in Belgium.
@tech the goverment dont do any shit for this so you can say yes.
In TR, I don't know back when, TPB's .se domain was censored, after that other different domains TPB jumped through were not censored. Now recently TPB went back to the .se domain so it's censored again (it was ongoing). Fail.
was that not over-ruled recently?
They all filter certain sites. use a VPN.
I agree use a VPN from like Sweden or something. But I'm pretty sure the US doesn't filter any sites, at least as I've observed.
If they don't filter a site, it means they are watching/monitoring the site.
PS: NSA is already monitoring ALL internet activity, even through Tor, VPN, etc.
Not in Romania. I can access any site just fine. Well, of course, not those specifically oriented to some markets, but they are blocked at source, not at destination.
Even more so, attempts to block internet here will bring a huge political backclash as half the population is on the internet extensively.
The data retention directive named Big Brother law here, after initially being overturn by the constitutional court, has been re-enacted at EU pressure under threats, however, if there will be any use of that data, the constitutional court might still deem the proof inadmissible (not an expert but so I heard).
The only issue is that the president uses the prosecution authorities to spy on his political opponents phones and make files and blackmail judges and other officials, including as high as the constitutional court. He was reinstated by the court after a 9:1 vote in the referendum against him because some judges expressed concern they will be arrested otherwise. But, that would have not been possible without EU/US pressure to keep their governor in place, so, the main blame goes over there. From this month, though, he can no longer do that, the new penal code forbids any spying without a court order and informing the target which sent the president in a rage against the corrupt parliament which protects their corrupt people
Democracy might be new in Romania, but people do discuss these things and are aware of the dangers, precisely because dictatorship was just so recently dumped. In US democracy was recently dumped, and people do not care yet as the situation is not so bad yet for the regular guy.