tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799914692887174209.post7814618257354090995..comments2024-01-15T21:30:40.609+03:00Comments on Istanbul's Stranger: The Great Turkish Firewall: It's New! And Improved!Strangerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09933997864575809110noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799914692887174209.post-75112003326097347792012-02-05T10:29:48.435+02:002012-02-05T10:29:48.435+02:00So unless one is more savvy about error messages t...So unless one is more savvy about error messages than I am, one won't know if it's from the publisher, the censors, or even a genuine error...<br /><br />I don't even care about Rolling Stone that much. I'm just kind of waiting on tenterhooks to see what will be slowly excised away from the Internet. Looks like I jumped the gun.Strangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09933997864575809110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799914692887174209.post-24005160999995746082012-02-04T19:37:19.046+02:002012-02-04T19:37:19.046+02:00The idea of turning censorship into error messages...The idea of turning censorship into error messages was not what I had in mind. That lovely piece of reasoning comes from a censorship bureaucrat here who wanted to further obscure the fact of their interference with the data traffic by turning that 'blocked' message into a technical error message. (Yes, they actually say these things to the press here.) <br /><br />Now, for the curious case of Rolling Stones, I looked into it for a bit months ago when someone else complained and it appears to be the kind of thing http servers return when they don't want to serve the URL you requested. A few of people outside the US (and Turkey) are complaining about this: <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=rolling+stone+access+denied+ip" rel="nofollow">here is a search</a>. Looks like something the site admins there are doing.<br /><br />You can still access it as http://64.147.122.110Bulent Murtezaoglunoreply@blogger.com