Title should have been: Telus blocking some 50 sites they dont like: voices-for-change.com. 86400 IN A 204.14.106.29 29.106.14.204.in-addr.arpa. 2061 IN PTR win5.myhsphere.biz. That is a shared server running windows: So this story is not about children playing in a sandbox: Canadian telephone company and ISP "Telus" and the employee's union but it is about real companies and their customers. This does cost money. Who is willing to pay for it? These two companies dont like them and their customers to be cut off, nor would I. http://www.jodohost.com/ http://www.myhsphere.biz./ Telus has shown enough incompetence for me not to choose them if I ever come close to them. Regards, Peter Dambier Mike Tancsa wrote:
http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Canada/2005/07/24/1145417-sun.html
As the slashdot headline quotes,
Canadian telephone company and ISP "Telus" has admitted that they are <http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Canada/2005/07/24/1145417-sun.html>blocking all attempts to access a website set up by the employee's union (who is currently "on-strike" or "locked-out", depending on your point of view). Currently no customers of the Telco's ADSL service (or any other ADSL service provider who leases lines) can access the <http://www.voices-for-change.com/>union's webpage. Is it reasonable for an ISP to censor webpages they don't agree with during contract negotiations?"
As Telus is one of my transit providers, they are still advertising the path to me, but are blackholing the /32s in question. Kind of sets a bad precedent for a common carrier argument :( I like BGP blackholing to protect internet infrastructure, but what exactly is this protecting ?
---Mike
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