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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."
Rules #5, #6, and #7
Verizon, you are doomed. Pissing off 4chan is probably the worst thing you can do on the Internet.
Some days I get the sinking feeling Orwell was an optimist.
So Verizon sold me internet service. Implicit in that is service to all internet hosts.
Has Verizon criminally defrauded me?
Obviously, Verizon is trying to provide better service for their customers.
Cut that out, or I will ship you to Norilsk in a box.
On hand hand this is malignant censorship, the forebode to a society with no free information. On the other hand, this is 4chan.....
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power lost.
Didn't some kid just get three years in jail for participating in an anti-Scientology DoS attack which was organized on 4chan?
Will that be enough to keep the users in line?
A slashdotter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber.
I was able to connect to boards.4chan.org from a Verizon FiOS connection.
Sadly, it seems that I have contracted Syphilis.
Moot himself said on the 4chan status blog that it's only Verizon Wireless from what they can tell.
It should be interesting to see the fallout from this. 4channers aren't exactly the paragon of maturity.
Canada: The US's more awesome sibling.
Granted it's /. so I don't expect anything else.
The block is only in place for Verizon Wireless traffic, not all of Verizon's traffic.
What the summary fails to note is that this -only- affects users of Verizon Wireless, namely DROID owners.
Not mentioned in summary: this is only verizon wireless.
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http://status.4chan.org/
$7.95/mo, 200 GB disk, 2TBxfer, MySQL, PHP, RoR.
Are they also going to block email, then? How about filefront and megaupload?
Because otherwise it's a hollow reason.
Not that any reason for censorship isn't hollow.
It is by my will alone my thoughts acquire motion; it is by the juice of the coffee bean that the thoughts acquire speed
I'm a FIOS customer and I can get to 4chan just fine at the moment.
"VERIZON YUO HAVE MADE POWERFULL ENIMEY
ANONIMOUSE IS LEEGON"
Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like yelling. Filter error:
That sounds more like a hold harmless clause to keep you from suing them if you aren't able to access your local radio station's Web contest because of Internet traffic or server failure on their part than it does a notification that they may at anytime decide to block a Web site.
I think Verizon has done something wrong here. If they want to offer something more along the lines AOL's old walled garden, they can't advertise it as the Internet, or at the very least, they need to spell out their restrictions.
When an ISP blocks your SMTP port to combat spam, somewhere in the agreement they spell this out. If they're going to reserve the right to block Web sites, they need to spell this out, too.
quiquid id est, timeo puellas et oscula dantes.
andnothingofvaluewaslost
You can access a specific board? I cannot. The main page will come up, but when I try to go to a specific board, it fails...
If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good
you can be sure that somewhere in the agreement there's a section which boils down to "we reserve the right to do whatever we damned well please and are in no way obliged to do anything"
Except free speech.
4chan is the mindless id, verizon is the superego of executive function control. the superego attempts to suppress the id. but it will just comes out anyways, in some subconscious way, it always does. you can't kill something 4chan, it's immortal and undead. the mindless id always finds a way
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Which in no way protects them from a lawsuit.
Get it right, you can sue for OVER 9000! dollars.
Or 8000, in the original Japanese...
Bow-ties are cool.
FYI This would effect any Verizon wireless device, unless it routes traffic through a proxy, like a blackberry.
Who would use a blackberry as a proxy? That just seems stupid.
Bow-ties are cool.
People with five-figure uids are expected to be able to look after themselves ;)
[FUCK BETA]
the correct quote is
"First they came for 4chan, and I did not speak out--because I was looking at boobies;
Then they came for fark, and I did not speak out--because I was looking at boobies;
Then they came for slashdot, and I did not speak out--because I was looking at boobies;
Then they came for the boobies-and I started building truckbombs, mailing anthrax, and hijacking airplanes."
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
some anonymous coward says he spoke with someone and the problem will be fixed?
well i just rang up obama and he said we'll have belgian style socialist waffles for every man, woman and child in this country in time for midterm elections
oh, that's absurd?
but you just modded an anonymous yahoo "informative" on the same fucking criteria
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Verizon Wireless. I attempted to access it over my VZW phone. No go. On my FiOS connection, there is no problem. People tend to forget that Verizon and Verizon Wireless are separate entities as Verizon Wireless is a joint venture between Verizon Communications and Vodafone.
The Overrated mod is for reversing inappropriate, positive mods, not for voicing disagreement with a post.
there would be no modern chemistry if it were not for the foundational inquiries of alchemists
likewise, there would be no modern psychology without the insights and work of sigmund freud
show some respect for your history. what you believe in today is superior to what they believed in the past. but you wouldn't believe in what you do today if they didn't believe in what they believed in the past. likewise, in a thousand years, some arrogant kid will snort at your brutal crude understanding and beliefs as well. apparently, with all the progress we've made in rationality and science, we still haven't cured arrogance and disrespect
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it