Re: Region Blocking?

2011-05-30 Thread Ralph Fox
On Sat, 28 May 2011 09:14:57 -0400, in message mailman.1304.1306588726.9060.support-seamon...@lists.mozilla.org d...@kd4e.com wrote: So, other than some thuggish regime blocking free political speech the only reason an IP would be blocked by region would be to protect a copyright? No.

Re: Region Blocking?

2011-05-28 Thread Ralph Fox
On Fri, 27 May 2011 23:55:47 -0400, in message mailman.1288.1306555164.9060.support-seamon...@lists.mozilla.org d...@kd4e.com wrote: The Internet is usually thought of as without boundaries, except where renegade thuggish nations manipulate their captive populations by manipulating

Re: Region Blocking?

2011-05-28 Thread d...@kd4e.com
So, other than some thuggish regime blocking free political speech the only reason an IP would be blocked by region would be to protect a copyright? COuld a poorly designed and/or implemented spam filter cause this as well? I have seen lists of countries that may be blocked in filters - based

Re: Region Blocking?

2011-05-28 Thread MCBastos
Interviewed by CNN on 28/05/2011 00:55, d...@kd4e.com told the world: The Internet is usually thought of as without boundaries, except where renegade thuggish nations manipulate their captive populations by manipulating information. So, I have been surprised from time to time when I am on a

Re: Region Blocking?

2011-05-28 Thread d...@kd4e.com
Thanks for the info. No epithets are being flung liberally. Blocking for legitimate copyright protection makes good business sense and is not anti-freedom. Blocking citizen access to news, in order to cover-up corruption and repression by a tyrannical regime, is an entirely different matter.

Re: Region Blocking?

2011-05-28 Thread JeffM
doc@ kd4e.com wrote: I have been surprised from time to time when I am on a site in Europe or elsewhere and get an error saying that some resource is not available in my region. http://google.com/search?tbs=dfn:1q=proxy-server MCBastos wrote: [...]the U.S. used to have a 28 years from register,

Region Blocking?

2011-05-27 Thread d...@kd4e.com
The Internet is usually thought of as without boundaries, except where renegade thuggish nations manipulate their captive populations by manipulating information. So, I have been surprised from time to time when I am on a site in Europe or elsewhere and get an error saying that some resource is