re: Anti-trans website Kiwi Farms taken off the internet again

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If all or most of the globes tier 1 internet carriers decide to black hole you and not provide transit to the data center you occupy.

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The question I'm about to ask probably belongs in tech, not here, but... That means they'd essentially have to blacklist DNS in friendly and unfriendly countries (do we think Sudan, the Congo, Mongolia, Turkmenistan, yadda yadda, are going to participate in blocking DNS entries? Regardless, if you have an IP address, I can find you. My current company with hundreds of thousands of employees is too stupid to force HTTP to HTTPS when requesting Internet facing web sites. I don't think that the Koreans, or South Africans, or Colombians will be on board.

I get it if you're directly contracting with a Tier 1, but that still doesn't control a whole lot of things. Have you noticed how much the countries aligning with China hate the guts of the west and will do anything to "undermine" society? There will always be an enthusiastic host, somewhere.

Liveleaks is still up and about. It took decades for the Pirate Bay for Books to get taken down. NNTP much? There is no stopping TCP/IP traffic. Tunneled, encrypted, or both, the traffic finds a way. There's always a way. It may be super inconvenient for the average user, but average users probably aren't trying to circumvent these types of controls, are weren't the type of people that were reading 2600 magazine, unless they're from Iran/North Korea/Russia, etc.

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The question I'm about to ask probably belongs in tech, not here, but... That means they'd essentially have to blacklist DNS

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if you have an IP address, I can find you

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There is no stopping TCP/IP traffic.

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This is really not true at all. DNS is really inconsequential here, it’s simply a protocol to put a name to an IP address.

Implicit Deny on firewalls is a real thing, as are ACL rules on routers. It would take a concerted effort by ISPs to truly block global access to a public IP address, regardless of port destination, but it can be done.

Kiwifarms is the best forum. I have sent money to support KF and will continue to support Null.