[liberationtech] Website censorship in the US

Kyle Maxwell krmaxwell at gmail.com
Wed Dec 18 09:11:25 PST 2013


Confirming that the IP address where dee\.su is hosted has shown up on
some lists of suspicious address. Example (not exclusive): see
https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-address/31.170.163.154/information/

On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Brian Conley <brianc at smallworldnews.tv> wrote:
> Have you contacted AT&T support? Crying censorship is a bit early in this
> case don't you think?
>
> On Dec 18, 2013 9:03 AM, "Maxim Kammerer" <mk at dee.su> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
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>> Maxim Kammerer
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