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November 18, 2014 at 3:09 pm #43358CharlieKeymaster
Someone sent me this link just now: China just blocked thousands of websites
The Chinese censorship authorities have DNS poisoned *edgecastcdn.net, which means all subdomains of edgecastcdn.net are blocked in China. EdgeCast is one of the largest Content Delivery Networks (CDN) in the world and provides its cloud services to thousands of websites and apps in China.
This is very concerning.
November 19, 2014 at 4:50 pm #43368muellParticipantThis is very concerning.
I totally agree. The worst thing is: This isn’t only happening in China, but it’s a global trend. I’m really worried about the future of the internet. Lots of people just don’t understand what we will lose if the free internet disappears.
Not sure about this one though, just checked addons.mozilla and it still works without vpn.
November 20, 2014 at 11:31 am #43377CharlieKeymasterI totally agree. The worst thing is: This isn’t only happening in China, but it’s a global trend. I’m really worried about the future of the internet.
What do you mean, blocking websites in general? I heard that the UK blocks torrent sites but otherwise it seems like only authoritarian states like China and Iran who really block massive parts of the internet.
November 22, 2014 at 10:19 pm #43409muellParticipantI was talking about a global trend for restricting the internet which often but not in all countries also includes outright blocking websites and domains. A “good” example of a non-authoritarian western state is Australia. There was even a proposal to introduce Chinese style censorship on the ISP level, but I’m not sure if that ever became law.
Enemies of the Internet according to reporters without borders (Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship#Around_the_world):
- Bahrain: 2012 to present
- Belarus: 2006-2008, 2012 to present
- Burma: 2006 to 2013
- China: 2008 to present
- Cuba: 2006 to present
- Egypt: 2006-2010
- Ethiopia: 2014 to present
- India: 2014 to present
- Iran: 2006 to present
- North Korea: 2006 to present
- Pakistan: 2014 to present
- Russia: 2014 to present
- Saudi Arabia: 2006 to present
- Sudan: 2014 to present
- Syria: 2006 to present
- Tunisia: 2006-2010
- Turkmenistan: 2006 to present
- United Arab Emirates: 2014 to present
- United Kingdom: 2014 to present
- United States: 2014 to present
- Uzbekistan: 2006 to present
- Vietnam: 2006 to present
November 23, 2014 at 8:07 am #43411BrendanModeratorI don’t think there’s any question the internet is the new battleground for population control (beyond television), with content control effectively being one and the same as far as use of technologies are concerned.
Interestingly I just ran a ‘namebench’ test last night and the results are quite detailed as far as DNS performance go. Find it here: https://code.google.com/p/namebench/wiki/UsingNameBench
That test will take a few hours, but will check against thousands of sites using your own servers, whilst concurrently providing alternatives (with a speed comparison rating).
I notice the U.S. is still looking to extradite Kim Dotcom: http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-government-brands-kim-dotcom-fugitive-spies-others-141120/
November 23, 2014 at 12:32 pm #43415pikachuParticipantdamn, they blocked a website i use for research :/
November 23, 2014 at 4:41 pm #43425CharlieKeymasterI was talking about a global trend for restricting the internet which often but not in all countries also includes outright blocking websites and domains.
Good point. I had heard about the UK censoring porn sites, and a lot of countries are censoring torrent websites in particular. Once you block anything on the internet it becomes a slippery slope.
Interestingly I just ran a ‘namebench’ test last night and the results are quite detailed as far as DNS performance go. Find it here: https://code.google.com/p/namebench/wiki/UsingNameBench That test will take a few hours, but will check against thousands of sites using your own servers, whilst concurrently providing alternatives (with a speed comparison rating).
So this will suggest a faster DNS server for to use? Has it made a big difference for you?
damn, they blocked a website i use for research :/
The list is always growing. VPNs are increasingly unreliable, also. I have several VPNs set up on my Mac and I am constantly switching between them because none of them are reliable 100% of the time. It’s infuriating.
November 24, 2014 at 3:08 am #43434BrendanModeratorSo this will suggest a faster DNS server for to use?
Yes, that’s exactly what it did. It came back with 5 servers that ranged (in the test) from between 48% and 67% faster than my existing (2) DNS servers that were provided via my VPN account. Interestingly I ran a leak test on those 2 prior to running namebench to verify that they were performing correctly. They were.
Has it made a big difference for you?
That’s what makes the leak test interesting, as so far having configured to the new suggested servers I’m seeing no failing page loads as before. No doubt this will last for a few days or so as usual, before slowing to the pace of a one legged half dead rat with a USB stick strapped to it’s back, and I’ll have to go searching for internet service solution #4,722.
Thanks China.
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