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Argentina blocks more than 1,000,000 blogger blogs.

65 points| brackin | 14 years ago |translate.google.com

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[+] rubyrescue|14 years ago|reply
I'm in Buenos Aires, Argentina and HTTP requests to that IP don't work either with or without my US proxy, so i'm not sure if that IP is correct. According to reddit the point was to block www.leakymails.com which is at 216.239.32.21. Let's try that:

$ host www.leakymails.com www.leakymails.com has address 216.239.32.21

NO proxy, open chrome to IP - can't connect

with US proxy, open chrome to IP - google 404 page (normal - presumably because of no host header)

NO proxy, chrome to http://www.leakymails.com - can't connect

with US proxy, chrome to http://www.leakymails.com - works

So probably the google article left the 1 off of the last digit; .21

[+] seppo0010|14 years ago|reply
As an argentinian... fuck this.

    seppo$ ping 216.239.32.2
    PING 216.239.32.2 (216.239.32.2): 56 data bytes
    64 bytes from 216.239.32.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=56 time=163.108 ms
    ^C
    --- 216.239.32.2 ping statistics ---
    1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
    round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 163.108/163.108/163.108/0.000 ms
    seppo$ curl 216.239.32.2
    curl: (7) couldn't connect to host
    seppo$ curl https://216.239.32.2
    curl: (7) couldn't connect to host
[+] andreyf|14 years ago|reply
Per rubyrescue's comment, you should be trying 216.239.32.21
[+] watchandwait|14 years ago|reply
Argentine president Cristina Kirchner is an authoritarian thug with a long record of abusing private property rights, and now, free speech.
[+] wslh|14 years ago|reply
Yes and ironically she got more than 50% of the votes in last week preliminary election. The mysteries of democracy.
[+] mrleinad|14 years ago|reply
How does she have anything to do with some ISP (mistakenly) blocking an IP, because a judge ruled that two sites should be blocked?

May I remind you of the Communications Media Law that was passed some time ago, protecting free speech from monopolies?

You're just trolling AND off-topic. You should be downvoted.

[+] marianoguerra|14 years ago|reply
so we can say that obama is an authoritarian thug too?

visit this and tell me what you see:

http://rojadirecta.com/

please don't overgeneralize, this was a court ruling (which I'm against) but don't use it as an excuse to make Argentina look like a dictatorship.

since you say she has a "long record of abusing private property rights, and now, free speech."

I would like to know some cases so people outside Argentina know (an for that matter me too)

PS: before you attack me with the easy label of being a peronist, let me tell you that I'm not.

[+] wging|14 years ago|reply
Maybe this is too off-topic for HN, but... that's a surprisingly readable translation!
[+] naner|14 years ago|reply
Google translate accepts contributed manual translations of any particular text. (Try double clicking some words on the page.) We have no way of knowing how much of that was done purely by software and how much was touched-up by human contributions.

Not to take anything away from Google, but I suspect software-only translation isn't quite as good as this seems yet.

[+] kristofferR|14 years ago|reply
Holy shit. I didn't actually notice that it was translated until you pointed it out.
[+] yariang|14 years ago|reply
I noticed that too. Spanish is my native language and, unless Google wrote that translation themselves, the machine translation from Spanish to English is spot on!
[+] will_|14 years ago|reply
I was very, very impressed by the translation - kudos goes to the Google translate engineers. If this high quality of translation can be achieved consistently, it marks a pretty significant step in human progress.
[+] mrleinad|14 years ago|reply
I'm tired of HN being so biased when voting on political issues.. If you don't agree, speak up. Downvoting someone is the last resort of those who have no valid argument at all. Downvoting is good when someone speaks nonsense, or there's something off-topic, or just plain (and provable) wrong. But not when someone's giving their opinions on something.
[+] kodisha|14 years ago|reply
Does anyone knows the reason why they blocked blogger in the first place?
[+] RyanKearney|14 years ago|reply
There were 2 blogs they wanted to block specifically. They blocked those blogs IP addresses without understanding how the internet works.
[+] bigwally|14 years ago|reply
Maybe Argentina should do what China does and block anything that resolves to ghs.google.com

By blocking ghs.google.com the blocking country won't be subject to any write ups on an official google blog.

[+] pp2moonbird|14 years ago|reply
not bad, more websites are blocked in china