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How is it like to be a dev in Iran

• duxup 7y ago
  >Even in US we can find certain domains which are blocked and cannot be accessed like those which contain CP or wild anti-humanism contents. What does that mean? I don't know of any US "filtering" outside of legal action to take a site offline. And what is "wild anti-humanism contents."?
  • DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
    I’m guessing here, but maybe the DOJ has seized domains being used to serve child pornography and things like filmed massacres, beheadings, etc.
  • Mathnerd314 7y ago
    The FBI occasionally seizes websites, it's really a government action rather than a (private) legal action: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/07/us/politics/backpage-prostitution-classified.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/07/us/politics/backpage-pros... https://kotaku.com/fbi-seizes-15-ddos-for-hire-websites-1831239141 https://kotaku.com/fbi-seizes-15-ddos-for-hire-websites-1831... Seizures are not as bad as the ISP-level blocks like the UK or Australia or China's firewall, but at this point a lot of semi-legitimate sites have learned to avoid US-based domain registrars or TLDs because the US will take them quite easily. For example sci-hub's .org got yanked after a court order.