[liberationtech] Website censorship in the US

Maxim Kammerer mk at dee.su
Wed Dec 18 09:02:14 PST 2013


On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Tom Ritter <tom at ritter.vg> wrote:
> It is unusual. If I was a betting man, I would
> put my money on them mislabeling your server or server farm as a
> spam/malware serving site.

Indeed, malware would also be my bet, and it is apparently the reason:
http://forums.att.com/t5/Features-and-How-To/I-can-not-access-sites-from-000webhost/td-p/3842847

I still consider this weird. Perhaps such censorship is more
acceptable for mobile Internet in the US, where all web access is
proxified? Maybe the related Wikipedia article needs some updating:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_United_States#Telecommunications_and_Internet_service_companies

-- 
Maxim Kammerer
Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte



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