Paraguay Telco Hijacks DNS Before Elections

MrJones writes "In Paraguay we are at T-9 days to national elections. The ruling party has been in power for nearly 61 years (including more than 30 years of dictatorship). Now the state-run ADSL company is hijacking the DNS nationwide of a site that denounces the corruption in the party."

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They should host the site on high-profile domains

[mysidia]

I.E. Google pages

And put the site in many places so it isn't as easy to silence.

While hijacking DNS of a small domain may go unnoticed

Hijacking say Google's or Yahoo's DNS could possibly be highly noticed by the citizens.

Re:They should host the site on high-profile domai

[orasio]

They are hosting some of them at googlepages now.
Anyhow, they are not small domains the ones that were hijacked. One of them is the official page of the party.

This is not something that could ever go unnoticed.

Re:Down with goverment censorship

[witherstaff]

You don't have to worry only about the government censorship - corporate media censors items when it fits their interests too. While the article is about Paraguay, even in the US "land of the free" we have censorship and outright lies broadcast as news every day. Fox news had reporters fired when they refused to lie in one of their reporting pieces. They sued under the whistleblower laws but lost.

Here's the chilling verdict: There is no law in the US that news cannot lie to you. Or for better wording - Because the FCC's news distortion policy is not a "law, rule, or regulation"

While any government outright censoring is bad, any media company that passes itself off as a news source that is able to lie is even more insidious. While most news sources have a political bias, you shouldn't expect to have to decipher lies!