Reports that AT&T is blocking 4chan are popping up everywhere

[MotF Bane]

Good luck, AT&T. :laugh:

 

[frostedflakes]

I'd imagine if this gets enough media attention the block will be lifted pretty quickly. Even if 4chan's /b/ isn't a site they visit, I don't think most Americans are too keen on the idea of their internet being censored. AT&T will probably see the same kind of backlash TWC saw when they were talking about rolling out metered service.

 

[Pliablemoose]

Originally posted by: MotF Bane
Good luck, AT&T. :laugh:

AT&T execs are going to be on every mailing list, spam list, etc for the rest of their natural lives....

 

[JohnCU]

Originally posted by: Pliablemoose

Originally posted by: MotF Bane
Good luck, AT&T. :laugh:

AT&T execs are going to be on every mailing list, spam list, etc for the rest of their natural lives....

i got a feeling it's going to be much, much worse than that. :gorillarape:

 

[JohnCU]

they're already posting all his contact info (CEO)

 

[kylebisme]

I use AT&T DSL, 4chan loads fine.

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: Pliablemoose

Originally posted by: MotF Bane
Good luck, AT&T. :laugh:

AT&T execs are going to be on every mailing list, spam list, etc for the rest of their natural lives....

Seems like an odd thing to sensor. Gonna suck if this was a networking screw up.....

 

[dammitgibs]

Originally posted by: kylebisme
I use AT&T DSL, 4chan loads fine.

I have AT&T DSL and can load 4chan.org but not img.4chan.org and /b/ I get "Connection Interrupted"

 

[rpanic]

Originally posted by: dammitgibs

Originally posted by: kylebisme
I use AT&T DSL, 4chan loads fine.

I have AT&T DSL and can load 4chan.org but not img.4chan.org and /b/ I get "Connection Interrupted"

Same here, this is going to be fun.

 

[JohnCU]

they only blocked /b/ section

 

[Babbles]

Originally posted by: Pliablemoose

Originally posted by: Elfear
So for those who are ignorant like me, what is 4chan?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4chan

This link may actually be more accurate in describing it: 4chan

 

[Kadarin]

Yep, I have ATT dsl, and I can get to the other channels, but not /b/. While I don't typically go to 4chan, I find it very irritating that ATT would choose to censor my internet.

 

[Babbles]

Originally posted by: rpanic

Originally posted by: dammitgibs

Originally posted by: kylebisme
I use AT&T DSL, 4chan loads fine.

I have AT&T DSL and can load 4chan.org but not img.4chan.org and /b/ I get "Connection Interrupted"

Same here, this is going to be fun.

Try a proxy?

 

[her209]

I did not know this. From Wikipedia:

Later that year, the private Yahoo! Mail account of Sarah Palin, Republican vice presidential candidate in the 2008 United States presidential election, was hacked by a 4chan user. This followed criticism of Palin and other politicians supposedly using private email accounts for governmental work.[44] The hacker posted the account's password on /b/, and screenshots from within the account to Wikileaks.[45] A /b/ user then logged in and changed the password, posting a screenshot of his sending an email to a friend of Palin's informing her of the new password on the /b/ thread. However, he forgot to blank out the password in the screenshot.[46] A multitude of /b/ users attempted to log in with the new password, and the account was automatically locked out by Yahoo!. The incident was criticized by some /b/ users, one of whom complained that "seriously, /b/. We could have changed history and failed, epically."[47] The FBI and Secret Service began investigating the incident shortly after its occurrence. On September 20 it was revealed they were questioning David Kernell, the son of Democratic Tennessee State Representative Mike Kernell.[48]

 

[Lemon law]

Originally posted by: dammitgibs

Originally posted by: Patranus
If you don't like the service that AT&T provides than switch internet providers. Nothing is forcing you to have an AT&T service.

What if AT&T and Comcast are the only two offering service in my area and they both censor? Is that how this will end?

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Bullshit, maybe in some cities people are free to switch to Comcast from AT&T, but I am in a rural area, AT&T is my monopoly phone provider, and I have no such choice.

Meanwhile I am waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting to even get vanilla dsl service from AT&T, and they clearly have a public be damned attitude.

But one bright spot, we can now all tell all subscription based TV delivery systems you are fired, and thanks to the digital TV transition, we can get better than cable quality pictures over the air for free.

 

[Winterpool]

I've never visited 4chan, and I suspect I wouldn't enjoy much of what's on /b/. That said, an ISP has summarily censored the Internet. I realise the US First Amendment doesn't protect everything, but this is fairly bleeding egregious. It's almost as if AT&T wants network neutrality legislation rammed down their throats.

I leave it to the 4chan punters to resort to whatever questionable tactics we'll probably read about in the coming days. In the meantime, write your Congressmen, contact the mainstream media, and send in a donation to the EFF.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: Winterpool
I've never visited 4chan, and I suspect I wouldn't enjoy much of what's on /b/. That said, an ISP has summarily censored the Internet. I realise the US First Amendment doesn't protect everything, but this is fairly bleeding egregious. It's almost as if AT&T wants network neutrality legislation rammed down their throats.

I leave it to the 4chan punters to resort to whatever questionable tactics we'll probably read about in the coming days. In the meantime, write your Congressmen, contact the mainstream media, and send in a donation to the EFF.

yeap. i don't care what your thoughts are on 4chan or if there are other service providers. this is wrong.

hope this really comes back to bite AT&T in the ass. seems like a dumb choice actually

 

[charrison]

UPDATED 5: From rumors on /b/, it seems 4chan?s first retaliatory strike will be towards Randall Stephenson, CEO of AT&T. The Consumerist has more. There are also murmurs about the AT&T block being put into place because of supposed mass DDoS-attacks to and from img.4chan.org, but so far there has been no official, verifiable response from AT&T.

and also

Well, I didn't see 207.126.64.182 or 207.126.64.181 in any block lists in the uverse routers , but that isn't to say they aren't blocked on the backbone someplace.

We obviously aren't blocking the entire site or any particular link due to content because I can still access everything else but the links using the IP's above.

If we where going to block a site, it wouldn't normally just be bits and parts, it would be all of it.

However, if they where blocked, their service provider should have received an email with the appropriate contact information to get it resolved.

They might want to think about taking it up with them.

from linkage


Looks like this shoot first, ask questions later might be a bad tactic for 4chan.....

 

[frostedflakes]

Originally posted by: Winterpool
I've never visited 4chan, and I suspect I wouldn't enjoy much of what's on /b/. That said, an ISP has summarily censored the Internet. I realise the US First Amendment doesn't protect everything, but this is fairly bleeding egregious. It's almost as if AT&T wants network neutrality legislation rammed down their throats.

I leave it to the 4chan punters to resort to whatever questionable tactics we'll probably read about in the coming days. In the meantime, write your Congressmen, contact the mainstream media, and send in a donation to the EFF.

Yeah unfortunately most of the people there are idiots. They're currently organizing DDoS attacks and other nonsense that isn't going to help their cause.

 

[JSt0rm]

Originally posted by: frostedflakes

Yeah unfortunately most of the people there are idiots. They're currently organizing DDoS attacks and other nonsense that isn't going to help their cause.

yeah but it will be fun.

 

[MotF Bane]

From a couple of posts on /b/, supposedly someone called AT&T and heard that it's being blocked due to bandwidth issues, that /b/ gets DDOS'd frequently and AT&T has to deal with the bandwidth load.

 

[frostedflakes]

Originally posted by: MotF Bane
From a couple of posts on /b/, supposedly someone called AT&T and heard that it's being blocked due to bandwidth issues, that /b/ gets DDOS'd frequently and AT&T has to deal with the bandwidth load.

That makes a lot of sense actually. Probably a lot of residential customers on botnets (IIRC these are what have been responsible for the DDoS attacks over the last few months on /b/). I'm sure these botnets chew through a crapload of bandwidth.

 

[PJABBER]

FREE 4chan!!!

(even if it is a complete waste of time.) :beer:

 

[Winterpool]

Latest updates suggest that 4chan is blocked owing to violation of ToS. AT&T has refused to clarify further. Presuming AT&T has informed moot of the specific violations, we'll have to wait on 4chan's report.

 

[seemingly random]

Originally posted by: kylebisme
I use AT&T DSL, 4chan loads fine.

bellsouth.