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The idiots blocked various IP ranges of CDNs. It's affected all sorts of sites including github and local news sites as well.
Indian Govt. blocks most of the warez sites, that too, if complained by someone with giant pockets.
Otherwise, they just don't care.
of course elites from the top of pyramid censor your internet. not just internet, mobile call, message, radio, ... anything that can keep you away from threatening their power. There is no absolute freedom, only relative freedom. you get freedom only when you want to believe you have the freedom. keeping people dumb numb is the best way.
I wonder why you bring up Sweden? Swedish providers use a DNS-filter.
So what happened to the block-list?
Enduser, yes. Datacenter, no.
Yes, but:
Some Indonesian ISP adding more sites and data to the filtering.
Bigger ISP even blocked the user for sending email using normal SMTP port, so the user have to use the ISP server for sending email. But so pity, most of the user in Indonesia didn't care or didn't even know if the ISP sniffing the data they send trough the ISP.
While, at another case, some user just use the SSH for tunnelling to get free internet access, and not for protecting their data.
Porn and torrent sites, in Malaysia. Easily bypassed by switching to Google DNS/OpenDNS/etc. lol
That may be. But aren't the datacenters also exposed to the data-retention? And besides that they have the FRA-law in sweden. I doubt that data-centers are excluded here.
Did you read the full text?
TIB can only block a site for 24 hours only. In 24 hours you must apply to a court. Otherwise the blocked site will get available again.
In Greece, government does not block anything on internet. Bit there is a block in the internet access at the offices of the public services (ministries, schools, municipals etc.), the employes of those services don't have access to porn/gambling/games and others.
This is a block from source, not government.
In the UK you have no right to freedom anymore, forget about internet censorship. The regime in the UK can throw you into the black hole known as belmarsh jail without giving you a reason, evidence, trial, chance to defend yourself for an indefinite period of time. SO YOU HAVE NO REAL RIGHTS AT ALL HERE IN THE UK and you're complaining about Pakistan??? You probably have more real freedom in Pakistan than in the UK.
I do not know, checked at random some sites there, all working except those that are down everywhere. I even advertise on 220.ro, no problem.
And KPN, UPC, T-Mobile and Tele2.
http://f63.net/i/ebfd41789447bd4079be6d777cf0a3.png
You're a news website, run breaking news about a gov't scandal. It should be "breaking news", just when people would hear about it, TIB takes the news website offline. This is not democracy. When you apply to a court, you have to remove the said news to get unblocked. Again, not democractic. It'll get very crappy, when courts find actual & factual news reports "not suitable" for the internet and keep you offline if you don't remove.
Basically, this proposed "rapid blocking" just aims to stop breaking news concerning the many epic fails of our gov't get stopped before being shared massively. Any leaks will be stopped at source. 100% lack of democracy is the only thing I can call this.
I'm sure WSJ's (The Wall Street Journal) website'll be shut off everytime they say sth about the government, as that's Prime Minister's least favourite news outlet.
I don't know if you're from Turkey, but in case you're unaware, here's an example on how stupid internet censorship by TIB is. They blocked Sound Cloud because someone leaked telephone conversations on that website. I can't imagine how many people were annoyed, who just want to listen to indie music.
New law also proposes includes the creation of a "ISP Union" which is obligated to oversee all ISPs and ISPs are forced to find countermeasures against those who surpass the censorship via DNS change and VPN.
404 Democracy Not Found
With new bill, SoundCloud will not block completely. Only relevant URL will be blocked. This is for urgent situations and TIB can't block any site permenantly without court order.
Read your parliament's official documents before criticizing them.
Pastebin was banned by Court order for 3 to 6 month and thousands of other sites was banned because of they post articles against govt.
What this guy says ^
No blocking, just data retention on larger ISPs (smaller are excluded, but might be taped on upstreamlevel) - Datacenters are excluded, so just use a VPS/Dedi in Austria and you have your uncensored, fullspeed, unmonitored access (most is peered on VIX or by upstream in Vienna anyway, so latency/throughput is mainly not an issue, UPC is 50/50 chance)
Dear Muhammed,
I'm aware of the bill. The new law includes the possibility of censoring the whole site. It's stated that judges will decide which URL is to be censored, and it does say that only the specific URL will be censored, however it is also stated that the whole website can be censored if necessary. This statement is very open ended and open to abuse.
You're focusing on sidenotes, and missing the point. Any kind of internet censorship is anti-democratic. The whole idea behind this is to stop leaks of telephone conversation recordings for, say, when Mr Prime Minister calls up the editor of a top newspaper to remove a news report he does not like.
Is this the Turkey you want to live in? Full of corruption, and if someone wants to leak proofs of corruption, than it's destroyed online. It's not like any proof of corruption can be used where it's supposed to be used (courts) as the legal system of the country is finished.
I don't know what your political stance is, but ironically, nobody denies that fact.
I am aware that they are also blocking. It's important to realize that the judgment in the appeals case applies to the parties involved in that case; that is, Ziggo and XS4ALL. This means that other ISPs (including KPN) would need to start their own appeals case to formally be allowed to unblock it.
Yes, you are right. I mis understood your other comment.
India banned pastebin too? Interesting...