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Kiwi here. This block was not initiated by the government, as far as I can tell. I believe certain ISPs blocked the sites preemptively, as the block is not in p
by ripdog 8y ago
Kiwi here. This block was not initiated by the government, as far as I can tell. I believe certain ISPs blocked the sites preemptively, as the block is not in place on my connection.
Thankfully, NZ has no mandatory internet filtering, though the department of internal affairs offers a child porn blocklist which some ISPs apply.
- lostlogin 8y ago> the block is not in place on my connection. Spark (NZ ISP) gets there ok for me. Edit: on further testing, some things are broken. 4Chan works fine, which is puzzling.
- r721 8y agoSpark managing director Simon Moutter: >Our Spark security experts are working hard to close off the websites attempting to distribute the hateful stuff originating from the perpetrators of the massacre in Christchurch. We hope it causes minimal inconvenience to legitimate internet use by our customers. https://twitter.com/simonmoutter/status/1106418640167952385 https://twitter.com/simonmoutter/status/1106418640167952385
- pbhjpbhj 8y ago"working hard to close off ..." Suggests ongoing and continuous effort, but that thread suggests it's a simple DNS blackhole. I imagine they added the domain(s) to their blacklist and flushed the cache (or removed specific entries). And this doesn't prevent access. Sounds like using a tragedy for marketing. Maybe I'm being too cynical?
- lostlogin 8y agoYou can’t be too cynical. If you aren’t already aware, Spark was part of Telecom before the NZ government broke it up. The then CEO controversially described using confusion as a marketing strategy. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10380894 https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&...
- tomatotomato37 8y agoI thought NZ had some Net Neutrality law that didn't allow ISPs to volutarily block stuff? I know it was some anglosphere country that successfully got a NN law passed.
- ripdog 8y agoFairly sure we don't. We have a hyper competitive ISP market, nobody does any kind of website slowing here. We don't really need NN in law.