Re: U.S. begins censoring Internet at U.K.'s request

[Scott Bennett <bennett@xxxxxxxxxx>]

     On Sun, 07 Nov 2010 14:17:20 +0000 "Geoff Down" <geoffdown@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>On Sun, 07 Nov 2010 08:05 -0600, "Jon" <torance.ca@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Scott Bennett <bennett@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >     I wrote:
>> >>http://news.antiwar.com/2010/11/05/us-censors-muslim-websites-list-of-british-mps-who-supported-iraq-war/
>> >>
>> >>     Using exit "chuckthecanuck" gives a Google (!) error page, saying URL
>> >>not found.  I'll add that exit to my ExcludeExitNodes list with a comment
>> >>that the reason is due to DNS hijacking that is probably related to U.S.
>> >>censorship.
>> >
>> >     I changed my mind.  I'm adding {ca},{uk},{us} to my ExcludeExitNodes
>> > list with an appropriate comment for later removal in case the U.S. ever
>> > calls off its War on the Internet. :-(
>> >
>> >
>>  I don't understand why excluding all exit nodes from the US, CA, and
>> UK, especially if you have only one exit node showing the error?
>> Altho, I may not understand or I misinterpreted your email
>> 
>> I had no issues with getting the website on google. I had to copy and
>> paste the url as it would not go directly from the email. Actually,
>> almost all the url's lately from the email;s don't go directly, I have
>> to cut and paste to get to them.
>> 
>> Jon
>> 
>The OP is presumably saying that the domain refered to in the
>antiwar.com story is unreachable, not antiwar.com itself.
>That's because it's been suspended by the registrar: tor-resolve returns
>no IP for it and the .com root server reports that no such domain
>exists. There may be cached entries floating around though.
>
     Actually, before posting my original note, I had used tor-resolve to
look for an IP address, and it quickly returned 74.125.93.121.  Doing a
reverse lookup of that address (also with tor-resolve -x) returned not the
original name but rather qw-in-f121.1e100.net.  Plugging either the IP
address or the latter name into the URL got me the same Google error page.
     Now, however, tor-resolve on the original name returns
[warn] Got SOCKS5 status response '4': host is unreachable
but the reverse lookup still gives the name shown above.


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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