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mateomiguel
Joined: 16 May 2005
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 Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 5:37 pm Post subject: can you view this link? internet censorship? |
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| I'm having some strange problems here at work, I cannot view this web page. It comes up as a blank page. However, when I use an anonymous proxy to view the link it works just fine! Anybody else getting the same thing? Is this net censorship? |
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fandeath
Joined: 01 Nov 2004
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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no, this is not not censorship.
I can't view it, but my guess is another reason.
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mateomiguel
Joined: 16 May 2005
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 6:30 pm Post subject: |
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| no as in you can't view it or no as in you are not getting the same result and can view the page without problem? |
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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 6:39 pm Post subject: |
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Al-Qaeda man on US treason charge
Mr Gadahn is thought to have appeared in many al-Qaeda videos
A California man who appeared in al-Qaeda propaganda videos has been charged with treason by a US court.
Adam Gadahn, 28, has become the first US citizen to be charged with treason since World War II, officials said.
Mr Gadahn, who is also known as Azzam al-Amriki or Azzam the American, is believed to be a fugitive in Pakistan.
Previously known as Adam Pearlman, he converted to Islam as a teenager and most recently appeared in a video with al-Qaeda ideologue, Ayman al-Zawahiri.
In the video released last month, he exhorted his fellow Americans to convert to Islam and said US soldiers fighting in the Iraqi and Afghan conflicts should switch sides.
No Muslim, he said, should "shed tears" for Westerners killed in terrorist attacks.
The indictment against Mr Gadahn said he had "knowingly adhered to an enemy of the United States... with intent to betray the United States".
A deputy US attorney described the treason charge as "exceptionally severe".
The charge carries penalties ranging from a five-year prison term to death.
Mr Gadahn grew up on a goat farm near Los Angeles.
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Col.Brandon
Joined: 09 Aug 2004
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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| BBC is a free service for UK citizens. IIRC they restrict their internet service to IP addresses within the UK. Otherwise it'd be too expensive for them. |
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canuckistan
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 6:50 pm Post subject: |
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Mr Gadahn grew up on a goat farm near Los Angeles.
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Well that explains everything |
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billybrobby
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 7:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Col.Brandon wrote: |
| BBC is a free service for UK citizens. IIRC they restrict their internet service to IP addresses within the UK. Otherwise it'd be too expensive for them. |
I've always read the BBC website just fine in America and Korea. And they wouldn't allow anonymous proxies if they wanted to restrict things to the UK. I dunno why that site doesn't come up but I read that story in another paper earlier today with no problems so it's almost certainly not censorship. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 7:46 pm Post subject: |
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China bans the BBC but Korea shouldn't. The front page works so there's probably just some localised problem here.
Korea does sometimes block random sites. |
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The Lemon
Joined: 11 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 8:57 pm Post subject: |
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| billybrobby wrote: |
| Col.Brandon wrote: |
| BBC is a free service for UK citizens. IIRC they restrict their internet service to IP addresses within the UK. Otherwise it'd be too expensive for them. |
I've always read the BBC website just fine in America and Korea. And they wouldn't allow anonymous proxies if they wanted to restrict things to the UK. I dunno why that site doesn't come up but I read that story in another paper earlier today with no problems so it's almost certainly not censorship. |
Col Brandon's right, he just didn't phrase it quite accurately - many of BBC's higher bandwidth streaming offerings are not available outside the UK, unless you pay. But that doesn't include webpages.
My guess about what the problem is: something's wrong with your ISP's DNS server(s), causing a temporary but frustrating inability of your browser to resolve that URL into an IP address. If you know how, try putting in 4.2.2.3 into the DNS section of your Network Settings. This is a DNS server run by Verizon in the US (I think) and generally works anywhere. It's a good backup server, unless they've blocked all of Korea from using it. |
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mateomiguel
Joined: 16 May 2005
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fandeath
Joined: 01 Nov 2004
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 11:56 pm Post subject: |
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It's funny how a lot of people always assume that if they can't access a site, that the Korean Big Brother must be blocking the site.
I do recall the censorship with the Kim Sun-Il tragedy, but for the most part, I don't Korea actively censors very much |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 12:40 am Post subject: |
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| fandeath wrote: |
It's funny how a lot of people always assume that if they can't access a site, that the Korean Big Brother must be blocking the site.
I do recall the censorship with the Kim Sun-Il tragedy, but for the most part, I don't Korea actively censors very much |
Try to go to DPRK sites and you'll see it. |
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The Lemon
Joined: 11 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 5:15 am Post subject: |
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| Is that true? I remember when KCNA was blocked in the late 90s but I thought Sunshine changed all that. I was able to get http://www.kcna.co.jp/ routinely from 2001-04. It's not showing up now inside theROK? |
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cwemory
Joined: 14 Jan 2006
Location: Gunpo, Korea
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| Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 6:34 am Post subject: |
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| Is that true? I remember when KCNA was blocked in the late 90s but I thought Sunshine changed all that. I was able to get http://www.kcna.co.jp/ routinely from 2001-04. It's not showing up now inside theROK? |
It's inaccessible now. A 불법정보 (사이트) warning from the good folks at the Korea Internet Safety Commission appears now. I too seem to remember being able to view this site from Korea last year. |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 6:53 am Post subject: |
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| I can read everything. |
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