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Verizon Blocking 4chan
An anonymous reader writes "According to 4chan's owner and administrator 'moot,' Verizon has explicitly blocked all traffic on their network from boards.4chan.org, where all of 4chan's boards are located. Moot explains that only traffic to and from port 80 is being dropped and they were able to confirm that it was intentional. 4chan's downtime for Verizon users has been in effect for at least 72 hours since Saturday, February 7."
*COUGH* Bullshit *COUGH*
Oh I agree it sucks big time. When you have user content they expect you to police that content. It's not fair to the site owner but it's part of owning a site like that.
What I don't understand is why 4chan gets hit like this but I don't see Verizon blocking Usenet or image boards like Rapidshare, whom I would bet have just as many "legal violations" per day as 4chan. What is a reasonable response to such content?
yea moot is know but for other type of crap...like allowing CP on his board.
I mean he wouldn't go as far as lying!! he's fine with child molesting but lying is pushing it too far! [sarcasm]
Rules 1 and 2 only apply to raids, dude. (Also the rules are pointless since chanology.)
DERP DERP, I kant reed!
"Note: Users with mobile browsers that proxy (BlackBerry, Opera) won't necessarily have issues accessing the boards."
http://status.4chan.org/
~The roAm
Let me have some serious doubts about that. Because that would mean that all the boards over the Net would face the same problem. Which is not the case. So why would a retarded pedo choose 4chan over any other chan board or forum to post that kind of crap?
C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
The site, so called 4chan where people post without registering doesn't exist. There is no board called /b/. Over 100,000 posts per day, come on. People never post anything offensive on the Internet. Oh and btw: the game.
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They sure use a lot of words to say very little. The only paragraph of substance:
"Recently, Verizon Wireless security and external experts detected attacks from an IP address associated with the 4Chan family of web sites that was disruptive to our customers and our network. To protect both, we eliminated connectivity to the IP address. At no time was 4Chan itself blocked. Ongoing network security team monitoring has now determined there is no longer an immediate threat. Connectivity to those sites is being restored later today."
An IP address associated with the websites, but not the website itself, leaves routers, DNS, database, cache, content and mail servers or services. But VZW customers claim that only port 80 was blocked (and not all connectivity to the IP address). Given that the rest of the Verizon statement is generic marketing boilerplate which claims to be relevant to this incident, this CYA is difficult to believe.
There are 1.1... kinds of people.
It is my understanding that there is no such thing as an ex-Marine: Once the Corps strips one's indentity and fills one with subservience, one is an unthinking drone forevermore. This is partially due to the intensity of the Marine Corps' boot camp; its victims feel obliged to assign a nobility to their suffering, rather than believe that they have suffered needlessly.
For more information, click here to read about cognitive dissonance.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled /. thread, already in progress...
I am anxious to see whether Verizon backpedals sooner or later. Also, ISP's should have no say in whether or not they are common carriers, since they obviously meet the definition of same.