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Venezuela's Government Blocks Access To Wikipedia (haaretz.com)
Haaretz (with contributions from Reuters and the Associated Press) reports:
According to NetBlocks, a digital rights group that tracks restrictions to the internet, as of 12 January, Venezuela largest telecommunications provider CANTV has prevented access to Wikipedia in all languages. The internet observatory told Haaretz the ban was discovered by attempting "to access Wikipedia and other services 60,000 times from 150 different points in the country using multiple providers."
Roughly 16 million people have access to the internet in the South American country ravaged by poverty and now facing a political crisis as leader Nicolas Maduro attempts to cling to power following a highly contested re-election last year. Wikipedia receives on average 60 million views from the country every month.
According to NetBlocks, the ban was likely imposed after a Wikipedia article listed newly-appointed National Assembly president Juan Guaidà as âoepresident number 51 of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela,â ousting Maduro from his presidential status on Wikipedia... Alp Toker, the head of NetBlocks, explained to Haaretz that the block followed a string of controversial edits on the Spanish-language article for Guaido as well as other related articles.
Long-time Slashdot reader williamyf identifies himself as "a Venezuelan in Venezuela." He reports that "The method used seems to be to intercept the SSL handshake and not a simple DNS block," adding "the situation is developing."
In May of last year the government declared a "state of emergency" that authorized the government to police the internet and filter content, rights activists reported Monday. They added that now Venezuela's new leaders plan to introduce legislation requiring messaging service providers to censor content, and implementing other so-called "content security" measures.
Roughly 16 million people have access to the internet in the South American country ravaged by poverty and now facing a political crisis as leader Nicolas Maduro attempts to cling to power following a highly contested re-election last year. Wikipedia receives on average 60 million views from the country every month.
According to NetBlocks, the ban was likely imposed after a Wikipedia article listed newly-appointed National Assembly president Juan Guaidà as âoepresident number 51 of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela,â ousting Maduro from his presidential status on Wikipedia... Alp Toker, the head of NetBlocks, explained to Haaretz that the block followed a string of controversial edits on the Spanish-language article for Guaido as well as other related articles.
Long-time Slashdot reader williamyf identifies himself as "a Venezuelan in Venezuela." He reports that "The method used seems to be to intercept the SSL handshake and not a simple DNS block," adding "the situation is developing."
In May of last year the government declared a "state of emergency" that authorized the government to police the internet and filter content, rights activists reported Monday. They added that now Venezuela's new leaders plan to introduce legislation requiring messaging service providers to censor content, and implementing other so-called "content security" measures.
They will delete all other non-SJW comments, but this Pornhub link of an emo chick sodomizing a large cucumber will NOT be removed.
You LOSE. Good DAY, sir!
We are at a point where there is simply no excuse to be a Socialist. If you can watch what has happened in Venezuela and countless other places where it's been tried and believe it just needs "one more attempt" then you truly are more stupid as the most inbred, meth-addict, 3rd grade drop out hick (or whatever variation you prefer of another demographic).
You know why?
Because even they get the gist of "doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is insane."
They have to. If you are not with them you are against them. It is built into the very fabric of the tenants of Fascist right-wing beliefs. It is why Mein Kampf and other ridiculous whiny faggot shit resonates so strongly with the INCELs.
Fascism/Authoritarianism quickly degenerates into Republicanism with no controls in place. Much as pure capitalism never actually existed. Trump is just faster at it, as he is with bankruptcies and frauds. We have tested Republicanism/Authoritarianism/Fascism very well at this point, they failed. They are head-in-ass denialists who no longer know what words mean, are so inbred and uneducated they wear that as a badge of honor. We keep thinking "oh well, we have to kill them all - again" - yes we do. They are lazy faggots of no value to America, and their pseudo-victimstance base on obvious lies is holding up actual work to be done. The uneducated will always be whiny slaves, but these Republicans are uneducated whiny slaves by CHOICE. They will use their own head-in-ass ideology to fight logic, reason, history, fact, and truth to achieve their selfish whiny faggot ends, not the other way around. Pity the morons, they lose every time.
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