iBurst Censoring/Blocking Websites... or not

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boyequal

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Seems like I made an assumption based on sites that were reported as Access Denied... The problem seems to be unrelated to the content of the webiste :)

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Excuse me? Since when does iBurst have the right to CENSOR what I see online?

When accessing thepiratebay.org (among others) I get an error:

"Access control configuration prevents your request from being allowed at this time. Please contact your service provider if you feel this is incorrect."

That page was generated by neocache-be01.iburst.co.za, so this IS iBurst censoring...
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*censoring

Would be rather disappointing if your experience reflects a new iBubbles tactic.
 
Yeah, sorry :) I was just too mad to think straight...

I reconnected a couple of times and was able to access aforementioned websites. I hope this isn't what's to come
 
It's not iBurst, it's IS and Seacom again, I get the same message for news24.com


While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.news24.com/Content

The following error was encountered:

Access Denied.

Access control configuration prevents your request from being allowed at this time. Please contact your service provider if you feel this is incorrect.
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Interesting that I only got the error with several websites that are targetted by anti-piracy groups. Hence the assumption :)

Suddenly now I'm getting it with wikileaks.ch ..
 
boyequal said:
Excuse me? Since when does iBurst have the right to SENSOR what I see online?

When accessing thepiratebay.org (among others) I get an error:

"Access control configuration prevents your request from being allowed at this time. Please contact your service provider if you feel this is incorrect."

That page was generated by neocache-be01.iburst.co.za, so this IS iBurst sensoring...
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SENSOR:
–noun
1. a mechanical device sensitive to light, temperature, radiation level, or the like, that transmits a signal to a measuring or control instrument.
2. a sense organ.

CENSOR:
–noun
1. an official who examines books, plays, news reports, motion pictures, radio and television programs, letters, cablegrams, etc., for the purpose of suppressing parts deemed objectionable on moral, political, military, or other grounds.
2. any person who supervises the manners or morality of others.
3. an adverse critic; faultfinder.
4. (in the ancient Roman republic) either of two officials who kept the register or census of the citizens, awarded public contracts, and supervised manners and morals.
5. (in early Freudian dream theory) the force that represses ideas, impulses, and feelings, and prevents them from entering consciousness in their original, undisguised forms.
–verb (used with object)
6. to examine and act upon as a censor.
7. to delete (a word or passage of text) in one's capacity as a censor.

..you juuusst might want to learn the difference. :rolleyes: But, as to what happened to you, that's their/*a* cache report which, when you consider just how MUCH kark itBust have given us lately is hardly a surprise. Which neatly opens the way for Hanlon's Razor which states "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." or, more delightfully put: "cock-up before conspiracy."
 
sigh, just as I was looking for another reason to trash iburst :whistle:

makes you wonder if there wasn't prescience involved when they named themselves iburst, cause they sure are bursting now :erm:
 
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