[LINK] ISP-level site-blocking of 'dangerous material'

[Bernard Robertson-Dunn]

On 30/08/2019 3:29 pm, Scott Howard wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 12:30 AM Bernard Robertson-Dunn
> <brd at iimetro.com.au <mailto:brd at iimetro.com.au>> wrote:
>
>     AFAIK (and I can't check it) is that 8Chan.com was only accessible via
>     Tor. I believe it had a .oinion url.
>
>
> This is not correct.
>
Scott,

Thanks for the correction

Bernard

> They were front-ended by Cloudflare (who do not offer any Tor
> services) until recently, when Cloudflare kicked them off.
>
> https://blog.cloudflare.com/terminating-service-for-8chan/ 
>  
>
>     ISPs are using DNS poisoning to implement the government's attempt to
>     discourage access to torrent indexing sites like the Pirate Bay. Once
>     you have a magnet link, a torrent downloader works fine without a
>     non-Australian DNS server or a VPN.
>
>
> Unless the government decides that the trackers listed in the Magnet
> link are also "dangerous"
>
>   Scott

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Regards
brd

Bernard Robertson-Dunn
Canberra Australia
email: brd at iimetro.com.au