Argentine ISPs Use Bazooka to Kill Fly

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/08/argentina-isps-ip-overblocking

by srl • 15 years ago

33 12 15 years ago

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nixusg• 15 years ago

One more reason to have your own IP addresses.

sp332• 15 years ago

It's harder to administer a blog yourself than to host it on Blogger. Can you host a blogger.com blog from your own IP?

ars• 15 years ago

You could redirect (at the IP level or proxy) all traffic from your IP to the real blogger IP.

In fact maybe someone with bandwidth could do that for Argentina to help them out ;)

dasil003• 15 years ago

What other way is there to block a website that can't be circumvented by changing DNS servers?

icebraining• 15 years ago

Deep packet inspection. More specifically, either block DNS requests for those domains or the actual HTTP requests.

guelo• 15 years ago

Right, so if an ISP doesn't have the capability to do that kind of blocking then the only way to comply with the court order is to null route blogspot.com

MichaelApproved• 15 years ago

Isn't this about cost? It's cheaper to have a router filter out an IP address than it is to have the router inspect the traffic and filter it based on URL.

billpg• 15 years ago

So my website is banned in Argentina? Cool!

jrockway• 15 years ago

This seems like a poor way to censor the Internet. Can't Google trivially change what address hosts Blogger in about 5 seconds?

(Also, the site in question seems pretty interesting. A wikileaks-alike?)

getsat• 15 years ago

Also, can't you just use Google to view the cached version?

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sclient=psy&...

wslh• 15 years ago

There is another tragicomic story about McDonald's Argentina removing the Big Mac (from the list) because the Government wants to hide the inflation index that will be revealed comparing to the Big Mac Index.

See:

- The Big Mac Index: Case of the Mysterious Disappearing Big Mac in Buenos Aires http://localbuenosaires.wordpress.com/2011/05/13/the-big-mac... (read the comments)

- http://www.economist.com/node/18587317

Argentine ISPs Use Bazooka to Kill Fly

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