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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.
That's how we do it in the Soviet USSA.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and...
You are welcome on my lawn.
[A Communist constitution] always goes full censorship.
And fascists don't?
Hyper-sensitive extremist tyrants embrace censorship of anything that puts them in a bad light, no matter what side they are on the political spectrum.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
Venzuela's problems began when the government started taking over the country's profitable industries. They have massive petroleum resources yet their oil companies collapsed when the state took them over. That's socialism in action.
And is a practice that first Google, then amazon and latter Cloudflare prohibited in their clouds.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.c...
Azure still permits a variant of this technique. Who knows for how long...
https://techlector.com/tor-pro...
But yes, we are hard at work to detect these censorship instances, devise workarounds, and educate the people on how to use them.
*** Suerte a todos y Feliz dia!
It was the Venezuelan government's attempt to quash a small edit war about who's the (legitimate) president, waged on the articles on Venezuela and President of Venezuela. AFAIK the blocking was implemented only by the state-owned ISP, which serves a large majority of domestic connections by virtue of being the only landline phone company.
Anyway seems they gave up on it, yesterday or early today:
openssl s_client -connect en.wikipedia.org:443
CONNECTED(00000005)
depth=2 OU = GlobalSign Root CA - R3, O = GlobalSign, CN = GlobalSign
verify return:1
depth=1 C = BE, O = GlobalSign nv-sa, CN = GlobalSign Organization Validation CA - SHA256 - G2
verify return:1
depth=0 C = US, ST = California, L = San Francisco, O = "Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.", CN = *.wikipedia.org
verify return:1
---
Certificate chain
0 s:C = US, ST = California, L = San Francisco, O = "Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.", CN = *.wikipedia.org
i:C = BE, O = GlobalSign nv-sa, CN = GlobalSign Organization Validation CA - SHA256 - G2
1 s:C = BE, O = GlobalSign nv-sa, CN = GlobalSign Organization Validation CA - SHA256 - G2
i:OU = GlobalSign Root CA - R3, O = GlobalSign, CN = GlobalSign
---
Server certificate
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
subject=C = US, ST = California, L = San Francisco, O = "Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.", CN = *.wikipedia.org
issuer=C = BE, O = GlobalSign nv-sa, CN = GlobalSign Organization Validation CA - SHA256 - G2
--- .... ....
No client certificate CA names sent
Peer signing digest: SHA512
Peer signature type: ECDSA
Server Temp Key: X25519, 253 bits
---
SSL handshake has read 3515 bytes and written 403 bytes
Verification: OK
---
New, TLSv1.2, Cipher is ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305
Server public key is 256 bit
Secure Renegotiation IS supported
Compression: NONE
Expansion: NONE
No ALPN negotiated
SSL-Session:
Protocol : TLSv1.2
Cipher : ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305
Session-ID:
Session-ID-ctx:
Master-Key:
PSK identity: None
PSK identity hint: None
SRP username: None
Start Time: 1547943159
Timeout : 7200 (sec)
Verify return code: 0 (ok)
Extended master secret: yes
---
DONE
In case it happens to you, there's several mirror sites:
https://en.wikipedi0.org
https://wikipediaproxy.org
https://www.wikiwand.com
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So pointing to Mussolini and pretending he was somehow the opposite of socialist or communist is a bit bizarre.
Communism and Fascism are not opposites. They are almost the same thing. Totalitarianism is totalitarianism. The main difference between extreme left and extreme right is how they justify their policies. The left says is is for "the good of the people" while the right says it is for "the good of the country". But that doesn't make much difference to the people starving in the death camps.
Mussolini was at one time the head of the Socialist party in Italy, and was a follower of Georges Sorel.
He was a leader in (not the head of) the Italian Socialist Party, but he was expelled when he advocated for military involvement in WWI, contrary to the Party's position of neutrality. He went on to create the National Fascist Party and advocate for totalitarian nationalism.
As for Georges Sorel -- he began as a Marxist and turned into something all his own, He abandoned socialism in 1910 and declared it was "dead" in 1914. He began to support nationalistic ideas in 1909. Oh, and he was an apologist for violence in the service of political causes.
So pointing to Mussolini and pretending he was somehow the opposite of socialist or communist is a bit bizarre.
Mussolini turned himself into the opposite of a socialist/communist. I'm not saying bad things haven't been done in the name of socialism, communism, or any other political ideology (left or right). I'm just saying Mussolini may have started as a socialist in name, but he turned into something much differet.
Fascism is what happens when socialist meets reality. Socialism is a fiction book has an imaginary race of people with no instinct for self-preservation or self-interest. Real people try to take care of themselves and their families, so fascism is required to force socialism on them.
Fascism is considered to be on the far right of the left-right political spectrum. Fascists consider socialists and marxists to be their enemies. Fascism doesn't force socialism on people. Fascism forces fascism on people.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
communism is the (closest) opposite of capitalism
No. You're inventing your own definitions. "Communism" as defined by Marx is basically an utopia that is not achievable right now. What you're thinking about is a planned economy which _is_ the opposite of capitalism. Historically planned economy was called "socialism" but that's a misnomer.
Socialism is a VERY different beast, Socialism is a system where the state takes capital from people who are judged to have too advantaged, and given by those who are judged to be disadvantaged. Socialism is by definition unstable, as the resources it takes from do not last.... It is the social equivalent of everything people are turning away from these days - consumptive behavior.
Incorrect again. Socialism as practiced in successful countries results in disadvantaged people becoming productive members, thus INCREASING the total amount of capital.
Meanwhile, true unconstrained capitalism results in monopolies, asset bubbles and race to the bottom yielding de-facto slavery. Last century the US was saved first by direct socialistic intervention during the Depression, then by the WWII artificially inflating the demand and finally by strong socialistic after-war policies (GI bill, government-funded Interstate system, Medicare, etc.).