Dresden on 27/7/2009 at 03:51
It's for the betterment of humanity.
catbarf on 27/7/2009 at 04:08
Quote Posted by Dresden
It's for the betterment of humanity.
Internet censorship?
Mind you, I don't care about the site itself, but this is both the first real offense in a debate that's been going on for years as well as a significant economic hit to one of the most popular websites in the world.
june gloom on 27/7/2009 at 04:26
If 12chan or anontalk were to be blocked that'd be one thing, members of those sites are just asking to be put on a watch list.
But 4chan is a huge part of the internet. You may as well be blocking WoW. Which would probably be even funnier.
Taffer36 on 27/7/2009 at 04:49
So apparently I hear that the result of this is going to be really entertaining.
Chade on 27/7/2009 at 04:50
Meh, ten bucks says this turns out to be a complete non-issue. Either some sort of mistake at AT&T, or 4chan being blocked for some valid technical reason that gets resolved shortly. In a week or two, the only people still talking about this will be conspiracy nuts.
june gloom on 27/7/2009 at 05:02
AT&T is now saying the problem is on 4chan's end.
Koki on 27/7/2009 at 05:43
Don't you just hate it when you have to root for the bad guys?
Still, I don't think it will be as entertaining as you make it sound. 4chan are just kids. Ten shitloads of them, but still kids. What are they gonna do? Wear these silly masks and stand with "DON'T BLOCK US" transparents under the AT&T HQ?
Because somehow, I don't think script-kidded DDOS is going to work against a major ISP.
Kolya on 27/7/2009 at 10:17
I doubt it's all kids. Even so kids are still customers or the children of paying customers. And even AT&t probably doesn't want an image as "internet censor".
driver on 27/7/2009 at 12:11
Quote Posted by dethtoll
Child porn is one of the few nonos...
Not as if that stops it from being posted anyway, which is probably one of the main reasons AT&T blocked it.
Ostriig on 27/7/2009 at 15:59
Update: (
http://digg.com/gaming_news/AT_T_lifts_4chan_block_raid_suspended) AT&T lifts 4chan-block.
Regardless of whether this "4chan ban" is intentional and whether it sticks or not, I think there's a real risk that ten-twenty years from now we'll look back and realize that we caught the golden age of the internet and its demise. Australia's Labor Party is already pushing for a (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Australia) national-level webfilter, and I'm sure you can guess what some of the already specified targets are. While very disappointed, I wouldn't be all that surprised to see them pull it off sooner or later, and then possibly other nations following suit. And I'm talking about what classifies as Western civilization here, (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship) Internet Censorship is already much farther along in other areas, as you might expect. This all might seem a bit unrelated and perhaps highbrowed when you take into account this particular context, but regardless of how you feel about 4chan, they both have and enforce regulations against the posting of illegal material.
Technically speaking, they address the posting of banned content in roughly the same way I guess TTLG would.
