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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.
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Censoring fake news is always a good thing
always goes full censorship.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
That's how we do it in the Soviet USSA.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and...
You are welcome on my lawn.
Shut up, APK. Go do something useful with your life instead of spamming Slashdot. Now you're posting death threats because you don't like SuperKendall? Not only is that illegal, but it shows just how utterly pathetic and worthless you are. Don't you have anything better to do? Everyone knows you're responsible for this spam, the really long Jew-hating spam last night, and the harassment of SuperKendall and Ray Morris. You're projecting your own Nazi allegiance onto others like SuperKendall and Ray Morris, but you're clearly proud of it when you post this ASCII art. You should be banned from ever posting on Slashdot again, you worthless waste of a human life. You are a shit stain who has never done a single thing of value with his life. You were even a third rate bench warmer for your college lacrosse team, and yet you brag about that decades later. Security professionals agree that your hosts file software is poorly written and pretty much worthless, so get that spam out of here, too. You're too incompetent to make a Mac version, despite spamming for weeks. You lied, claiming you own rental properties when that clearly isn't the case. You also lied when you said trolls threatened to create a malicious imitation of your software. Do yourself a favor and voluntarily leave Slashdot. Get this through your head, APK: no one wants you around. No one.
That everyone who shouts "Socialism is a great idea", has to ignore.
I remember a lot of threads on Slashdot about Venezuela doing a blanket ban on ownership of guns, where violent, armed crime went down by a factor of 1000, showing that bans do work, despite the critics. This pops up in almost any firearm discussion.
Not that I am a fan of them, but they at least do something right.
Can the Venezuelan government (or any other government) also block APK from accessing Slashdot? That would be wonderful!
Wikipedia brought this on themselves with their notability facsists. Even featured articles are getting the chop. Make something worth defending, and people will come.
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."
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This sounds like domain fronting would get around the block: Connect to a different site hosted behind the same load balancer, establish a TLS connection with the other site's domain name, then use the correct host header for the HTTP request inside the TLS connection. That's how Signal got around Russian attempts to censor them.
Killing nazi faggots is what made America great in the first place, hu rah, string them up next to the traitor Drumpftard and let Satan sort those pathetic inbred INCEL faggots out with his pitchfork, Amen.
"INCEL upset by wikipedia whines that he doesn't personally dictate their narrative to favor white male faggot-nazi pseudo-victimstance, news at 11"
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.
Every single article on Wikipedia that's even slightly political is camped 24/7 by rabid leftists, so by blocking Wikipedia they're blocking the kind of propaganda that the Venezuelan government likes.
*BSD has lost more = 1400 NetBSD theorists - bureaucratic and no matter how Can no longer be architectuqre. My for a living got And the striking hand...don't and shouting that
We really need to get back to bashing the USA.
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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This started in jun 2018. Before that, the censorship was based in simple DNS manipulation, afterwards they implemented some form of deep packet inspection, which also attempts to block TOR (fixed by using obfuscated bridges).
Censorship has been going for a few years. It started with media sites, extended to porn sites, at some point they put pastebin because someone pasted a political message, and now this.
They did back down on pastebin and wikipedia (this is coming to slashdot way late).
Artix
Your Linux, your init.
That's not related to "socialism" at all, moron. That would be something Communism - a form of authoritarianism via centralization - would care about. You need to learn the difference between communism and socialism, like most morons.
Not really, they got screwed by the timeline and US-controlled OPEC embargoes. If they can't offload their rich (#3 in the world?) resource except to cash-strapped pariah states like Russia for pennies on the dollar, that's CAPITALISM screwing them.
They did nationalize the industry under socialist propaganda, but they didn't follow through on the socialism at all. It was a sham, they enriched the ruling cabal to excess. Everyone else got screwed by design.
That's more Trump pyramid scheme than actual socialism. I don't expect you to understand or admit this, most people prefer bullshit labels to knowing what they mean or how they actually operate.
Mussolini was at one time the head of the Socialist party in Italy, and was a follower of Georges Sorel. So pointing to Mussolini and pretending he was somehow the opposite of socialist or communist is a bit bizarre. That's kinda like:
Republicans do this ...
And Reaganites don't?!
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.
Socialism in action is interstate highways, clean water, unions, public education, affordable health care. You're an idiot. You deserve to die in a rich man's asshole, trying to redefine his turds as delicious morsels of capitalism.
They said the same about Norway, Sweden, Denmark, France, Belgium, UK, Poland, Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Austria, and a bunch of places I'm forgetting. Fox News cowards know nothing about any of them. They fear reality.
They rely on inbred ignorant cowards to pass on their non-specific fears and echo off eachother until one goes full nazi and gets shot to death by police. The INCEL Fox News lifecycle ends in tragedy, every time.
It's because they hide from reality, which ironically could educate and save their lives from ignorant faggoty fears that rule them. Pity the cowards, they choose that lifestyle of pillowcases overhead instead. Nazis choose death.
America is famous for giving them that, as is Europe generally.
But Turkey is our ally so you won't read about it in Haaretz.
None of those things are socialism. Private capitalist companies being contracted by the government to build things and provide services is different from the government becoming the means of production.
Nazi homosexual recruiter RAY MORRIS pushing debunked Nazi propaganda even after corrected, #ROPE
AND YES, Mussolini whew that corporatism and fascism were interchangeable terms, and the enemy of socialism. He said so VERBATIM. You're a moron Ray. Nice try nazi faggot propagandist, you lose again.
As I said before, people keep saying that Slashdot does finally delete posts. If that's the case, why not simply have a script that catches this swastika stuff. There are easily regex parts of it that no legitimate user would ever use. Can code it in 50 seconds.
As far as I know just having the Swastika in ASCII like this on so many posts now could make Slashdot considered illegal in Germany as per the "Wolfenstein" rule.
The Nazi stuff,
Who gives a fuck if some " person" in thier deluded mental state programs a " bot" to post a message that they obviously care ( or cared about) .
This isn't hacker news!!!
All hail to APK
You are wrong, socialist is not the opposite of capitalist, not by far.
communism is the (closest) opposite of capitalism
at least in their pure forms:
Communism is there the state takes control of most things, and then distributed work and rewards as it seems best to run an economy - ie: a full state run economy.
Capitalism is where the government releases control of most things to private enterprise, and private capital/equity becomes the controlling factor running the economy.
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.
The primary issue with socialism (other than massive corruption every time it has been tried) is that it specifically moves equity from people who have demonstrated an ability to grow it, to those how have demonstrated an ability to lose it (on average).
Venezuelas problem is not primarily caused by that however, it seems to be mostly corruption, however such redistribution also appears to be a factor.
The government is not "the means of production" even if it owns it, you're illiterately conflating the two. When they COMPLETELY own the means of production, that's CORPORATISM ie FASCISM, not socialism.
Socialism is when the PEOPLE THEMSELVES COLLECTIVELY own the means of production AND control the government to achieve that. When a government takes over a national industry that's nationalization, not socialism.
Yes, it's a "socialist" endeavor to have the public chip in for public works that benefit all citizens, the society. No, that alone does not make a government "socialist", but it is a socialist endeavor, like collective bargaining and pooling health insurance, etc.
These are discrete concepts you are not separating properly.
....has been in a state of emergency since 1988.
I wonder how many decades or centuries Venezuela's will last?
I wonder when the USA will decide to declare a state of emergency for the rest of eternity so we have a permanent Fuhrer?
Fuck Wikipedia and its fake knowledge.
The poverty is the inevitable result.
...socialism more than anything else.
Socialism/Leftism/Communism is all about:
- a spirit of vengeance against their perception of other people's greed when in fact Socialists are energized primarily by greed over other people's money, and
- denial of all historical evidence.
The underpinning anti-science stance of Socialism makes the anti-science stance of religious Fundamentalists look mild.
Slather on the self righteousness from good intentions for poor people, rather than a economy that actually helps poor people, and you're good to go.
'Screw the individual, the State shall rule over you' that Socialists so love == The normal thug-based governments before the USA-defined first world showed up.
Regressive, period.
There is something Denmark would like you to know:
https://www.thelocal.dk/201511...
Forbes explains it further:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/j...