Internet Censorship In NZ: Infowars.com/Prisonplanet.com Blocked By AsiaNetcom

[KiwiClare]

As of Friday night, many people - probably the majority of internet users in NZ, have not been able to access Infowars.com and Prisonplanet.com, myself included.
If anyone has any suggestions on what action to take, don't hesitate to be forthcoming.
Internet Censorship In New Zealand: Major Truth-Providing Websites Blocked By Asia Netcom
http://clareswinney.wordpress.com/2010/02/07/internet-censorship-major-truth-providing-websites-blocked-by-asia-netcom-to-new-zealand-users/#more-7394

Has Chinese-style internet censorship arrived in New Zealand this year?  The question is posed because two major news websites, Infowars.com and Prisonplanet.com, both of which are run by documentary maker and radio show host Alex Jones, who is renowned for exposing the truths the corporate-controlled mainstream media attempts to conceal,  were found to be have been selectively blocked on Friday evening and were still unavailable at the time of writing.

Thankfully, this seemingly draconian measure does not effect all internet users in New Zealand.  It appears to be confined to those whose internet server providers, (ISPs), use Asia Netcom for their international internet traffic.  Telstraclear, Vodafone and Worldxchange Communications users are not effected, while Woosh, Orcon, Slingshot and Telecom users are unable to access the two sites.

A fan of Infowars.com and a 9/11 truth activist, Jeff Mitchell, reported on Saturday that he contacted his ISP, Orcon to establish what was causing the block, and was advised by a computer technician who did a traceroute, that the break in traffic to the two websites was found to be occurring at  Asia Netcom’s router in Sydney.  This technician also advised that as Telstraclear used a different route, their customers were still able to access the two sites.

[SUPREMEMASTER]

OMFG.......

And Alex has had people say to him that infowars/Alex Jones is ON FIRE in New Zealand......

NOW THIS?!

[SUPREMEMASTER]

The forum stopped working for a time period that was long enough to make my personal edit/delete features for the post above to expire...

I would like to request that this thread be stickied because I feel that this is rather important (to say the least)...

Also I think this should be talked about on Alex's show and other alternative radio shows as well -- this information should have at least 1 article put up about it on PrisonPlanet.com or InfoWars.com or maybe both websites.

And thanks/credit to Jeff Mitchell and all else involved in making that information available. -- I say we should make this significant news A.S.A.P. before the situation of website blocking becomes worse.

[Satyagraha]

As of Friday night, many people - probably the majority of internet users in NZ, have not been able to access Infowars.com and Prisonplanet.com, myself included.
If anyone has any suggestions on what action to take, don't hesitate to be forthcoming.
Internet Censorship In New Zealand: Major Truth-Providing Websites Blocked By Asia Netcom
http://clareswinney.wordpress.com/2010/02/07/internet-censorship-major-truth-providing-websites-blocked-by-asia-netcom-to-new-zealand-users/#more-7394

Has Chinese-style internet censorship arrived in New Zealand this year?  The question is posed because two major news websites, Infowars.com and Prisonplanet.com, both of which are run by documentary maker and radio show host Alex Jones, who is renowned for exposing the truths the corporate-controlled mainstream media attempts to conceal,  were found to be have been selectively blocked on Friday evening and were still unavailable at the time of writing.

Thankfully, this seemingly draconian measure does not effect all internet users in New Zealand.  It appears to be confined to those whose internet server providers, (ISPs), use Asia Netcom for their international internet traffic.  Telstraclear, Vodafone and Worldxchange Communications users are not effected, while Woosh, Orcon, Slingshot and Telecom users are unable to access the two sites.

A fan of Infowars.com and a 9/11 truth activist, Jeff Mitchell, reported on Saturday that he contacted his ISP, Orcon to establish what was causing the block, and was advised by a computer technician who did a traceroute, that the break in traffic to the two websites was found to be occurring at  Asia Netcom’s router in Sydney.  This technician also advised that as Telstraclear used a different route, their customers were still able to access the two sites.

I hope Alex will discuss this topic on his show. This is the kind of censorship we can expect to see more in the next year; and they'll find a way to justify it based on 'cyber terror' threats. The Ministry of Propaganda will not allow truth.

[TheHouseMan]

This will end up being another pitfall for the establishment.

It's 2010. Censorship is not acceptable. New Zealand's government will suffer over this, and the ISP will have its name tarnished forever.

[Futurist]

There's the evidence right there that as soon as the firewall goes up the first order of business is stop people learning the truth of what's going on. The internet's only been around for 15 years and it's already under attack.

[Gandalf]

New Zealand's government has nothing to do with this (at least officially). The block is in Austrailia, and ISPs in New Zealand who are getting their Internet connections through Austraila are affected.

This is a good thing, because hopefully it will cause ISPs to switch to better carriers so they don't lose customers

[Valerius]

I remember decades ago when I thought no one could tame the wild Aussies and Kiwis...

[KiwiClare]

I'm just curious, but could you use a proxy server in another country to log onto locally blocked sites?

We can use http://www.secretaccess.org/

I just tried it and got through to Prisonplanet.com and Infowars.com. Someone just phoned and told me that technique.

Also, I just got a call from someone at Slingshot and he said they are calling for AsiaNetcom to take the block off because they don't agree with Chinese-style censorship.  

Also, luckily, in NZ there are alternatives we can use that don't go through AsiaNetcom.
The following information was collected by sending out e-mails over the weekend to people around NZ, asking them if they could access Infowars.com and Prisonplanet.com, and what their ISP was.

Phillip, who uses Telstraclear can access them.

Steve in Stratford, who uses Telstraclear (clear.net.nz address) can access them.

Jenese and Barbara, who both use xnet.co.nz can access them.

Jeremy who uses Vodafone can access them.
Ian uses Vodafone and can access them.

Evelien Gilbert who uses Ihug, and can access them.
I spoke to someone at Vodafone/Ihug and he advised that some Ihug users may not be able to contact the 2 websites because Ihug/Vodafone is tied in with Telecom. He said if you are directly effected by this problem, to contact them. Business customers on 0800-438-458 and residential customers on 0800438-448 and they can take it further.

Jade in Wellington, who uses Woosh, can not.

J in Chch, J in AK and Fred in Whangarei who use Orcon.net.nz can not.

I use Slingshot.co.nz and I can not access them.
Betty uses Slingshot and can not access them.

Andy uses Slingshot and has not been able to access them since Friday.

Barron in Ak wrote I …have Telstra Clear dial up as back for when Telecom Broadband may have a problem and I can confirm that I can access Infowars.com via my TelstraClear dial up, but not via Telecom’s Broadband.

Warren, Daniel, Pat and Ian, who use Telecom’s service, can not access these two sites.

Andrew uses Telecom and can not access it.

Benny can access the sites and he uses Telecom Xtra. He is on dial-up.

Message from Tim at an internet cafe on the 7th of Feb:
I really don’t know what internet provider I’m using as I am
at a net cafe. But I can tell you that I have not been able
to enter these sites.

[Freeski]

I hope Alex will discuss this topic on his show. This is the kind of censorship we can expect to see more in the next year; and they'll find a way to justify it based on 'cyber terror' threats. The Ministry of Propaganda will not allow truth.

It's the main focus of the Sunday show, on now.

[ES]

[able]

its not just NZ... im near Melbourne (Australia) and i have the same problem starting at the same time.

im waiting for a phone call from my isp to explain this blatant censorship.

[Guns Equal Freedom]

I am sorry to hear.

Nobody should have their rights taken away.

[Freeski]

I'm getting odd disruptions now... in Canada. Just in the last hour.

[Xill]

I'm getting odd disruptions now... in Canada. Just in the last hour.

Do not use Bell or Videotron.

Teksavvy does not do that sort of censorship, very good company, cheaper and faster.

[able]

i have the offending "Asia Netcom" in mine when i do a tracert on both sites.

[deadflagblues]

i'm in NZ, but i don't think my ISP, orcon, routes through asianet

[able]

deadflagblues

click on your start button and click run, then type in cmd, then once the black box appears type "tracert prisonplanet.com" and it will give you a read out of all the servers you bounce through to read prison planet.

it will look like one of these...
http://www.911oz.com/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=495&stc=1&d=1265596269

top is infowars and the bottom is prisonplanet.

the middle is well.... 

[KiwiClare]

Has the worm of censorship turned?
The worm of censorship appears to have turned. I can now access Prisonplanet.com and Infowars.com and I understand my ISP, Slingshot.co.nz, goes through AsiaNetcom

I am waiting for confirmation that the block at Asianetcom has come off from Slingshot and I will do a quick survey of people in NZ, who use a variety of ISPs to find out if they have access now.

One good thing about this debacle is that it will make people appreciate the truth more and also, it will draw peoples' attention to what is on the two websites, Infowars.com and Prisonplanet.com.

Ultimately, it may be that this will backfire on them.

I heard Alex saying that over a billion in China have been effected.  Hopefully the issue resolves itself quickly.

[able]

just got of the phone to pacnet who run the asianetcom router
http://au.pacnet.com/

they claim they can get to both web sites through their router and say they are not engaged in any censorship.

i spent a good five min on the phone and disused government censorship with the representative including using the words "governments using kiddy porn to bring in political censorship" and their rep agreed fully and stated that they are certainly not happy and they are glad that its a "shit storm" and "hopefully it will all be abandoned."

mmmmmm so who do i yell at next?

[able]

ding ding ding ding.....


both sites just magically appeared.

[able]

can we get confirmation from effected kiwi's that they are back up?

[Xill]

ding ding ding ding.....


both sites just magically appeared.

Those company react quickly to customer complains - sometimes offering not-advertised deals, etc. Make sure to verify that they did not activate the sites only for you.

If just a few thousand people changes company within a week for the same reason they'll stop the censorship.

I left Bell Canada for the same reason last month and I am not with a company who offers better service, cheaper and private (they do not throttle websites like Bell did).

[KiwiClare]

OK, Jade who uses Woosh, and advised he was previously unable to access the sites, sent a screen shot to show he is able to access them now.

Jon who advises he uses Orcon, claims that while he could not access the sites before, he can now.

While I was advised by someone at Slingshot - a tech person this morning, that the issue was related to Asianetcom, as was Jeff on Saturday, the story has now changed.

Now it seems "Limelight content distribution"  is to blame, so they claim.  

This related comment was left under an article at infonews.co.nz:
http://www.infonews.co.nz/news.cfm?l=1&t=72&id=47706

To clarify: there is currently an issue with NZ ISPs using Asia Netcom as an upstream provider getting access to content that is hosted on the Limelight content distribution network (infowars.com is just one of numerous sites hosting content on this network). This began over the weekend.

We have this morning added a temporary fix that means that Orcon customers are able to browse these sites as normal, however they may be slightly slower than normal. We are talking to our suppliers and Limelight to ensure that normal service is resumed as soon as possible.

I would also like to add that we have never selectively blocked or censored any website or content. This was simply a technical issue.

Duncan Blair

Head of Brand and Communications

Orcon

"Simply a technical issue" - yeah right.

[able]

im with a different isp but when viewing pp and iw they use the asianetcom router to get over to the states.

i did mention that plenty of people were effected especially in NZ and to expect a flood of calls of complaint about their router disabling connection to "specific sites know for their political content"....

i just want to hear if my effected cousins in NZ are back up so that no further inquiry is required by me or other Australians who value human rights and freedom of speech and that me being able to connect is a one off and or purely coincidental considering i was able to connect within 1 min of the phone call.  

[KiwiClare]

More reports have come in that the block is off now for individual users in New Zealand.
Anthony with Telecom has access now.
Elizabeth with Telecom has access.
Warren with Telecom has access now.
Andy with Slingshot  has access now.
Fred and Jeff, who are with Orcon, have access now.

  Jeff Mitchell advises he stands by what he was told on Saturday by Orcon, that the block was due to AsiaNetcom.  

A Gerard wrote in comment section at Web of evidence blog:
And if anyone is in any doubt about the illegality of internet filtering or blocking, consider Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, binding on all UN member states:

Article 19
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Thank-you to Alex Jones for drawing peoples' attention to the issue of censorship.

[able]

Thank-you to Alex Jones for drawing peoples' attention to the issue of censorship.

+1

and giving us the fire in the belly to stand up shout BACK NO!

[mr anderson]

More reports have come in that the block is off now for individual users in New Zealand.
Anthony with Telecom has access now.
Elizabeth with Telecom has access.
Warren with Telecom has access now.
Andy with Slingshot  has access now.
Fred and Jeff, who are with Orcon, have access now.

  Jeff Mitchell advises he stands by what he was told on Saturday by Orcon, that the block was due to AsiaNetcom.  

A Gerard wrote in comment section at Web of evidence blog:
And if anyone is in any doubt about the illegality of internet filtering or blocking, consider Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, binding on all UN member states:

Article 19
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Thank-you to Alex Jones for drawing peoples' attention to the issue of censorship.

 

Article 29
(3) These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

Good work Clare!

Glad all is resolved though, for now.

They probably thought they'd ease the global filter in through a nation not many could pinpoint on a map through routers in Australia.

Testing, prodding and gathering the reactions of the masses. They'll be back.

[Gandalf]

COME ON LET'S SEE SOME TRACE ROUTES.


Here is mine. Both sites are working for me, and it appears that both sites are hosted in Chicago. I'm not that far away from Chicago which is why it's only taking probably about 12 hops to get there. Somebody else overseas try it and post what they get.

www.infowars.com:
 1:  nomad.ignorelist.com (98.214.148.147)                  2.406ms pmtu 576
 1:  no reply
 2:  ge-1-3-ur01.peoria.il.chicago.comcast.net (68.85.179.89)   8.886ms
 3:  te-8-1-ur02.peoria.il.chicago.comcast.net (68.85.177.142)   8.918ms asymm  2
 4:  te-0-10-0-2-ar01.elmhurst.il.chicago.comcast.net (68.85.177.81)  21.314ms asymm  3
 5:  pos-0-1-0-0-ar01.area4.il.chicago.comcast.net (68.87.230.237)  20.626ms asymm  4
 6:  pos-1-12-0-0-cr01.chicago.il.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.90.53)  28.554ms asymm  5
 7:  TenGigabitEthernet2-2.ar5.CHI1.gblx.net (64.213.79.245)  29.203ms asymm  6
 8:  te4-2-10G.ar2.CHI2.gblx.net (67.17.106.134)           33.580ms asymm  7
 9:  64.215.29.250 (64.215.29.250)                         20.294ms asymm  8
10:  tge7-1.fr3.ord.llnw.net (69.28.172.41)                26.094ms asymm  7
11:  cdn-208-111-168-6.ord.llnw.net (208.111.168.6)        33.034ms asymm  9

And for www.prisonplanet.com:
 1:  nomad.ignorelist.com (98.214.148.147)                  2.345ms pmtu 576
 1:  no reply
 2:  ge-1-3-ur01.peoria.il.chicago.comcast.net (68.85.179.89)  13.899ms
 3:  te-8-3-ur02.peoria.il.chicago.comcast.net (68.85.176.142)  10.052ms asymm  2
 4:  te-0-10-0-0-ar01.elmhurst.il.chicago.comcast.net (68.85.176.146)  16.710ms asymm  3
 5:  pos-0-1-0-0-ar01.area4.il.chicago.comcast.net (68.87.230.237)  17.623ms asymm  4
 6:  pos-1-13-0-0-cr01.chicago.il.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.90.49)  17.476ms asymm  5
 7:  TenGigabitEthernet2-3.ar5.CHI1.gblx.net (64.209.88.253)  20.245ms asymm  6
 8:  te4-2-10G.ar2.CHI2.gblx.net (67.17.106.134)           17.823ms asymm  7
 9:  64.215.29.250 (64.215.29.250)                         18.781ms asymm  8
10:  cdn-208-111-168-7.ord.llnw.net (208.111.168.7)        17.659ms asymm  9

[KiwiClare]

Frightening Taste Of Internet Censorship As Major Free Speech Websites Blocked
http://www.infowars.com/frightening-taste-of-internet-censorship-as-major-free-speech-websites-blocked/
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Monday, February 8, 2010

With influential proponents recently calling for a newly regulated world wide web, we got a preview of how that might look this past weekend after both Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com were completely blocked to many Internet users in New Zealand.

The block was only removed early this morning following a raft of complaints after both websites were unavailable on many ISP’s since Friday.

As the New Zealand based InfoNews website reported yesterday, both of Alex Jones’ flagship websites were blocked by ISPs using Asia Netcom for their international internet traffic.

It is important to stress that we receive emails on a weekly basis informing us that our websites have been blocked as “hate speech” or “offensive material” at Internet cafes, libraries, transport hubs, workplaces, and numerous other buildings not only in the United States but across the world. The censorship is being done at the ISP level, so whereas some people in a particular country will still have access, others will be blocked.

As we reported in 2008, London’s St. Pancras International, which millions of people traveling across mainland Europe pass through every year, completely blocks Prison Planet, Infowars and even more mainstream political websites as a matter of course.

In 2007, MySpace admitted their policy to censor and filter out posts containing links to the Prison Planet.com website, adding that the MySpace server automatically blocks such information. The social networking giant, as well as others such as Facebook, periodically block links to Alex Jones material and only revoke such filters when people complain.

In 2005, Time Warner subscribers from New York to California reported that their access to Infowars and Prison Planet had been blocked due to “hate speech,” before their access was restored.

UK ISP Tiscali also blocked the websites following the 7/7 London bombings in 2005.

Infowars’ social network was also blocked by libraries in the U.S. in 2008 using Safesquid and Google filtering software.

We receive numerous reports every single week of Alex Jones’ websites being blocked by ISPs and by filtering software in public buildings.

“An avid fan of Infowars.com and a 9/11 truth activist, Jeff Mitchell, reported on Saturday that he contacted his ISP, Orcon, to establish what was causing the block, and was advised by a computer technician who did a trace route, that the break in traffic to the two websites was found to be occurring at Asia Netcom’s router in Sydney,” stated the report.

The websites were blocked on every ISP that relied on Asia Netcom as its upstream provider, including Woosh, Telecom, Slingshot and Orcon.

According to Duncan Blair, Head of Brand and Communications at Orcon, access to content hosted on the Limelight content distribution network, including Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com, was blocked as a result of a “technical issue”.

    * A d v e r t i s e m e n t
    * efoods

“I’m the person who half-made this story possible by calling my ISP,” wrote Jeff Mitchell in a comment on Prison Planet. “Just want to report that infowars.com is now working for me, even though it was down all weekend! We complained to ISPs and they were “very concerned” about censorship; that, combined with this article on prisonplanet could very well have been the reason for us regaining access.”

Whether the problem was down to technical issues or deliberate censorship, the fact that ISP’s can selectively block certain websites at the flick of a switch gives us a frightening preview of what a Chinese-style government regulated Internet would look like, which is exactly what influential insiders are calling for.

The move to impose centralized government control and regulation of the free Internet has accelerated over the past 12 months.

Last week, Time Magazine enthusiastically jumped on the bandwagon to back Microsoft executive Craig Mundie’s call for Internet licensing, as authorities push for a system even more stifling than in Communist China, where only people with government permission would be allowed to express free speech.

During a recent conference at the Davos Economic Forum, Mundie, chief research and strategy officer for Microsoft, told fellow globalists at the summit that the Internet needed to be policed by means of introducing licenses similar to drivers licenses – in other words government permission to use the web.

Internet censorship bills currently working their way into law in the UK, Australia and the U.S. legislate for government powers to restrict and filter any website that it deems to be undesirable for public consumption. In Italy, new rules to be imposed by government decree force anyone who wishes to upload a video to the web to get permission from the government’s Communications Ministry.

Power brokers in the White House have openly declared war on free speech and targeted Internet “conspiracy theorists” as the main threat to their agenda.

In a 2008 white paper, Obama’s Regulation Czar Cass Sunstein called for the government to tax or even ban outright political opinions of which it disapproved.

On page 14 of Sunstein’s January 2008 white paper entitled “Conspiracy Theories,” the man who is now Obama’s head of information technology in the White House proposed that each of the following measures “will have a place under imaginable conditions” according to the strategy detailed in the essay.

    1) Government might ban conspiracy theorizing.

    2) Government might impose some kind of tax, financial or otherwise, on those who disseminate such theories.

The ominous spectacle of major free speech websites going dark in supposedly democratic countries is a shocking portend of what the establishment wants to impose on a widespread basis. Only by screaming bloody murder in defense of the last true outpost of free speech – the Internet – and threatening boycotts and aggressive public relations campaigns can we counter the insidious move to silence the only remaining open forum of lawful dissent.

Research related links

   1. Internet Censorship: Major Truth-Providing Websites Blocked By Asia Netcom To New Zealand Users
   2. Major International Transport Hub Censors Political Websites
   3. Free Nationwide Wi-Fi Network To Censor Political Websites
   4. Death Of The Internet: Censorship Bills In UK, Australia, U.S. Aim To Block “Undesirable” Websites
   5. Enemies Of Free Speech Call For Internet Licensing
   6. Australia To Enforce Mandatory Chinese-Style Internet Censorship
   7. UK House of Lords Follow China and Australia, Propose Internet Censorship Bill
   8. Fatal flaws in Australia’s website censorship plan, says report
   9. Get Outraged And Get Active About Internet Censorship
  10. Australia: Growing opposition to Labor’s Internet censorship
  11. You Tube Free Speech Purge Accelerates, Infowarrior Channel Banned
  12. Post-Olympics China Turns Its Back on Internet Censorship Promises

[KiwiClare]

Internet Censorship Alert! Alex Jones exposes agenda to ‘blacklist’ dissenting sites and license users
http://www.prisonplanet.com/internet-censorship-alert-alex-jones-exposes-agenda-to-%E2%80%98blacklist%E2%80%99-dissenting-sites-and-license-users.html

Aaron Dykes & Alex Jones
Prison Planet.com
Tuesday, February 9, 2010

The Western world, from Australia to the United States, UK and parts of Europe, are moving in a unified front toward dictatorial Internet censorship. Australia has led the way, despite outcry from its populace, by “filtering” out certain banned content. In the United States, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, in continuing his family’s tradition of oppressing free humanity, has pushed forward Cybersecurity legislation that has already passed the House. He has done so in the name of warding off ghastly cyber “attackers” conceivably fronting for al Qaeda while ushering in a means to restrict free speech and expression online for the general population.

With Obama’s support, most of the developed world has accepted plans for government-approved online activity and Pentagon-monitored internet traffic. The U.S. and UK are facilitating the hijacking of what has, until now, been a highly-democratic Internet. Overall, it has been a technological God-send for bringing together communication and strongly expressing thought outside of the mainstream information available on television and in print.

Now, people are being forced onto the corporate-dominated Internet2– once again, in the name of “security.” (Internet) Freedom sacrificed at the same false alter of (Internet) Security. Independent blogs, news sites and online businesses will all be financially disadvantaged by access fees not demanded of dominant entities. What is today outside the ‘norm’ but well within free speech will tomorrow be evaluated by politically-correct criteria that will be used to identify sites to block and users to deny access. Currently, a campaign is underway to convince the public to accept “driver’s licenses” for the once-free Internet.
Watch Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG--42sjAvA&feature=player_embedded

Already, government “blacklists” have been exposed. On its lists? The usual suspects– Infowars.com, PrisonPlanet.com, Wikileaks.org and the like. Referrals to sites like Infowars.com and PrisonPlanet.com are being denied not only in Australia, but in places like New Zealand– who have not adopted the same policies, but do share ISPs who have ordered a block. All across the world, wherever internet “filtering” and outright censorship has been phased in– via libraries, businesses, airports, and so forth, sites that are critical of government are consistently blocked first. This has been true not only of Alex Jones’ several websites, but also of sites like Wikileaks, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Cryptome and etc, etc. The common theme is not operating outside of law or of speaking in extremities, but challenging the power establishment through distribution of information and/or shedding light on its otherwise little known unscrupulous activities.

This Orwellian scheme has already been branded by the outrages of Cass Sunstein, one of the Obama ‘Czars’, who has called for governments to ban “conspiratorial theories” and identified thought-crimes including a disbelief in man-made global warming and a belief in the basic goodness of “sunshine.” In considering how to eradicate ‘outlawed’ beliefs, Sunstein posits the benefits of using bloggers to engage and counter ‘disinformation.’ A very similar version of this strategy has already been adopted by the Pentagon in its “infowars” campaign.

Alex uses his most-recent experience in an outright ban to sound a warning that the enemy is already among us. Internet censorship threatens to stifle out a recent phenomenon of free thought and widespread information that has flourished on the Internet / world wide web. Only by standing up to undue constraints on our rights and by saying no to efforts to chill speech on the web can we save a stronghold of free humanity.

– Frightening Taste Of Internet Censorship As Major Free Speech Websites Blocked

- Death Of The Internet: Censorship Bills In UK, Australia, U.S. Aim To Block “Undesirable” Websites

- Obama Information Czar Calls For Banning Free Speech

- Conspiracy Theories (Cass R. Sunstein, Harvard Law School; Adrian Vermeule, Harvard Law School — January 15, 2008)

- Should Obama Control the Internet?

- Sen. Jay Rockefeller: Internet is “Number One National Hazard”

- Proposed Web video restrictions cause outrage in Italy

- Joining China and Iran, Australia to Filter Internet

- Leaked Australian blacklist reveals banned sites

- Internet Censorship: Major Truth-Providing Websites Blocked By Asia Netcom To New Zealand Users

- New Zealand blocks two websites selectively

- Online Kiwis maybe feeling Oz censor trickledown

- Australia’s compulsory internet filtering ‘costly, ineffective’

- Australia Censors Wikileaks Page

- WikiLeaks Exposes Australian Web Blacklist

- Gates backs China in Google censorship spat

- Gates calls China censorship ‘limited’

- Microsoft’s Mundie calls for ‘internet driving licence’

- UN agency calls for global cyberwarfare treaty, ‘driver’s license’ for Web users

- Internet ‘driver’s license’? Microsoft’s Mundie wants it

- House Passes Cybersecurity Bill

- S. 773: Cybersecurity Act of 2009

- Bill would give president emergency control of Internet

- TIME: Driver’s licenses for the Internet

- Enemies Of Free Speech Call For Internet Licensing

- Information Week: May I See Your Internet Driver’s License?

- NY Times: Driver’s Licenses for the Internet?

- Time Magazine Pushes Draconian Internet Licensing Plan

- Police want backdoor to Web users’ private data

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[KiwiClare]

A Brand Manager from Slingshot.co.nz phoned today in request for information I made on Monday, (two days ago).

He confirmed that the block to internet traffic was due to AsiaNetCom. He did not mention the Limelight company, which was touted as the cause of the problem by Orcon.

He said the problem with AsiaNetCom was a "technical" problem which was "resolved quickly."

He said the first they knew about the block to Infowars.com and Prisonplanet.com was when customers phoned up and complained.

He said they would not be happy putting a block to the traffic in as he said, they were against censorship and also, because of the competitive nature of the internet - ie it would turn customers away to sites that didn't block.

He said AsiaNetcom was an "integral" part of their network and consequently, they had to be mindful of that relationship.

Asked if they would consider moving away from AsiaNetcom if censorship became an issue, he said they would review that situation when it arose.

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so my phone call/lecture to AsiaNetCom worked? 

happy to contribute.