Fasttelco is now also blocking BoingBoing. Qualitynet also haven’t removed BoingBoing from their block list even after all the emails and phonecalls. Sucks.
Update: You can now visit BoingBoing by just going to 248am.com/bb
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What is BoingBoing?
its the #1 blog
hmm this is disturbing news – i wonder what bloggers can do short of just calling or sending emails – i never heard of it before to be honest and checked it out, it looks like a smorgasbord of little interesting tidbits, i couldnt detect anything obscene there – are the ISPS in kuwait on crack? btw im using kems at work and they also blocking it for some reason
That is really wierd. I called them twice about it, but it seems like you have to just go in and complain. Because they use the same type of content filtering. Did you try asking Rami?
i dont need them anymore. just go to 248am.com/bb
they’re just gay that’s all
thanks mark
this issue kinda ticked me..i wrote a small rant on my blog – i hope you dont mind Mark but I gave you guys complete credit for discovering this
I have no issues viewing boingboing, and I’m on FT…
what kind of FT connection do you have? At work FT is blocking boingboing..
Fastelco’s email reply (which didnt answer my question on why boing was blocked):
Dear Sir,
“We currently have the URL http://www.boingboing.net categorized as
‘nudity’ and ‘entertainment’ beside the site contains free Anonymous Proxy list.
Thanks.
Technical Support.
Fast Telecommunications.”
So just because it is “categorized” as something means it get banned right? Oh and I loved the last line about “besides they have an anonymous proxy list” —- shit they actually admit they go after proxy lists not just nudity
http://battellemedia.com/archives/002371.php
This is big news – it was even in the Herald Tribune last week. Lots of people against it and it seems like this American company – Secure Computing and their SmartFilter software is to blame.
256k ADSL
which url are u using, boingboing.net? cuz i just tried it again now and getting the FT block page.