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Access Now's partners have confirmed that the Tor network — a widely used tool allowing users to browse the internet anonymously — was blocked in Venezuela last week over the government-owned internet service provider CANTV, by far the largest ISP in the country.
Direct access traffic on the Tor network steadily increased in Venezuela over the past two months, and even more sharply this month via Tor bridges — alongside a new wave of online censorship from the Maduro government. These most recent blocks have affected several major Venezuelan news outlets, including El Nacional and La Patilla, among others.
While previous online censorship in Venezuela could often be avoided by switching DNS settings from a local Venezuelan server to an international service (like Google's public DNS), this has not been possible for the most recent blocks. Instead, people have needed to rely on using virtual private networks (VPNs) and Tor to circumvent government censorship. This increased use of Tor to access blocked content is likely what triggered these new restrictions to the tool.
"It seems that the government of Venezuela has found out how to do a very sophisticated block for the Tor network. It's not only on the direct access channels, but also the bridges Tor provides to bypass that blocking," said Melanio Escobar, Venezuelan technologist and journalist, and founder of Redes Ayuda. "The government is moving forward to be as closed as China or Iran."
"This is the latest escalation in Venezuela's internet censorship efforts, as it blocks higher-profile sites with more sophisticated methods. This is one of their boldest internet censorship actions yet," said Andrés Azpúrua, Director of Venezuela Inteligente, an organization documenting technical evidence of the Tor block and other censorship events in Venezuela through its project VE sin Filtro. Reports further analyzing the technical details of the Tor network block are forthcoming.
Source: https://www.accessnow.org/venezuela-blocks-tor/
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 29 2018, @03:37PM (21 children)
Well Runaway, not all men are women but im willing to adopt you as my 2nd sister. Alternatively i can find you a hot tranny if youre really ready to explore the range of human sexuality. You prefer pre or post op?
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Friday June 29 2018, @03:50PM (16 children)
Pre or post op? Doesn't matter - which are you? I have a sister-sized hole in the yard that needs to be filled, and you'll do nicely.
And, I thought I was running out of places to hide the bodies!!
(Score: 2, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday June 29 2018, @05:08PM (15 children)
Wow, you went right to threats of violence at the mere thought of a transwoman hitting on you...is there something you'd like to share with the class, Runaway? Something from your days ploughing the salty seas, mayhaps? :D
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 3, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Friday June 29 2018, @05:12PM (14 children)
Wow, you jump into a mockery of a discussion, fully armed and ready to have a guy committed to the looney-tunes bin. Please, DON'T share anything with the class. It wouldn't increase your stature anyway.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 29 2018, @06:14PM
Heh, make a troll sig and get trolled. Nice bag of insecurities you've got there! Please don't get your close(s?)t gun and go shoot people, that is bad manners. Well, depending on that little s anyway.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 29 2018, @06:18PM (2 children)
I am not my brother's keeper. My brother may marry anyone he wants ... except for you. I have to have some standards.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday June 29 2018, @06:59PM (1 child)
Grab a beer, and we'll drink a toast to standards. So very many people have none. Touche!
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 29 2018, @07:31PM
Bad touche! Stranger danger!
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday June 29 2018, @09:47PM (9 children)
Thing is, though, with your type it's never really "just mockery." I know how you work. Things said in jest, as in wine (or likely cheap pisswater beer in your case...) very often have more than a kernel of truth to them. And you've shown some violent reactions to similar ideas in the past. Basically, you wouldn't bother making that kind of sig if it weren't bugging you somehow.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Saturday June 30 2018, @01:24AM (8 children)
My type? What about your type? Oh - forgot, your type is "protected".
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday June 30 2018, @06:22PM (7 children)
Whaddaboutism in the very next post, wow. On top of a contextless, whiny, wholly ungrounded whinge about "protections." What "protections?" You think I go stealth and present straight for fun, Runaway? Don't be an idiot.
Boy, sounds like I really hit a sore point. What happened, did you get shore leave to Thailand one time in the Navy and make a terrible mistake?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Sunday July 01 2018, @01:36AM (6 children)
Ooooh, ooooh, ooohhh! She's doing it again!! Starting a fight according to bitch rules! Are you holding a grudge about my comment in your journal? And, yet, when I post AC, you're all sweet and thankful for my input. In it's own way, it's kinda funny.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday July 01 2018, @04:34AM (5 children)
I forgot you commented in my journal actually. Was going to ask which one, but you know, I decided I don't really care. Sorry if I'm bringing up bad memories from In The Navy, old man :)
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday July 01 2018, @04:49AM (4 children)
Yada, yada, yada. She has no point to make, so she tries to play head games. To help dispel some misconceptions, overall, my memories from the Navy are good memories. Oh yeah, there were some bad times, can't avoid those, but, no, I don't have many of those. I didn't spend years in a Vietnamese POW camp, after all. Passed through a couple battlefields, but didn't have to live in one for half a year or more like a lot of soldiers and Marines. Head games. As I've pointed out before, if this woman ever got a handle on a man, if she knew how to hurt him, she would twist the screws just as tight as she knew how.
Hey, 'Zumi, maybe you can get a job with the CIA?
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday July 01 2018, @04:57AM (3 children)
Boy, one little poke and you go all conspiracy theorist on me. CIA? That's flattering, in a way. No, if I ever got into the CIA it would be to kick Gina Haspel backwards into her own acid bath, but that's it...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Sunday July 01 2018, @05:22AM (2 children)
A career with the CIA has it's benefits. Great Aunt Madeline had her very own government baby sitter when she retired, and started going senile. The woman would have her good days, and bad days. She starts talking about what a charming person Chairman Mao was, and the babysitter asked everyone to leave the room. That stuff was pretty funny sometimes . . .
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday July 01 2018, @06:07AM (1 child)
And speaking of senile, you're starting to ramble again, old man. I'm not even convinced you ever had a great-aunt Madeline, and if you did, she'd be a bit too old (and a bit too not-Chinese...) to be going on about what a great guy Mao was. Go take your pills and have a nap.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday July 01 2018, @06:57AM
When do you suppose that Mao was born? And, when do you suppose my greats were born? In actuality, Madeline was junior to Mao by about 20 years. I thought you were 92nd percentile, and here you are doing math like a 40th percentile.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 29 2018, @04:39PM (2 children)
Don't taunt Runaway with a tranny unless that tranny voted for Trump.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 29 2018, @06:17PM (1 child)
So Milo? Its a pretty tightly kept secret but he used to be a woman, like most conservitards (not conservatives, some are sane) he is probably projecting all his Trans hate because he can't stand his own reality.
You'll note I was kind enough to use "him" instead of "she" since I respect that other people can live different lives from my own. You bible thumping jackrabbits should listen to more Aretha Franklin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0POmdK18WU [youtube.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 29 2018, @06:20PM
Forget the previous link, some fool sped it up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAI_Nv3qWto [youtube.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 29 2018, @08:16PM
-1 Funny, I WIN THE INTERNET
Great kickoff to the weekend K.....o .;^