Why is the US Green Party's site blocked?
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Re: Why is the US Green Party's site blocked?
#2It couldn't have been an honest mistake, they must have blocked it for political reasons. Imagine living in this state of paranoia.
Re: Why is the US Green Party's site blocked?
#3I've worked with several kinds of public blocking lists and one thing I learned is that they are all full of false positives. For whatever reason, I would not be surprised if just nobody ever noticed the mistake.
Re: Why is the US Green Party's site blocked?
#4It couldn't have been an honest mistake, they must have blocked it for political reasons. Imagine living in this state of paranoia.
I have found during Canadian election seasons that green party signs and posters are the only ones consistently vandalized. The people who think the Green party is stealing 'their' votes are unbelievably entitled. If only they knew how much that does to make them not my second choice either.
Re: Why is the US Green Party's site blocked?
#5I've worked with several kinds of public blocking lists and one thing I learned is that they are all full of false positives. For whatever reason, I would not be surprised if just nobody ever noticed the mistake.
Yeah, that's a given because they're not constructed manually ie. no manual verification.
Give them some time to react. My wife complained to me she could not visit a website (I run Pi-Hole on our network, and our mobile devices get routed to it even on external networks). I looked through the logs, figured the offending rule, contacted the maintainer, and they fixed it within a few hours.
The issue has been up for one hour thus far.
Re: Why is the US Green Party's site blocked?
#6My trivia league was blocked by Heathrow's airport wifi because of "games/sports". I contacted Boingo, who told me they don't block websites (? okay, so then your client operates a rogue blocklist that uses Boingo headers for the error page -- that's even worse). I also tried contacting some sort of pseudo-government safe browsing list to see if it was their blocklist being used by Heathrow and got no response.
The annoying thing is not the false positives: these things happen, and mostly it's not all that urgent to resolve immediately. The annoying thing is a total lack of obvious appeals process to resolve a false positive. At least the OP's example is on GitHub and thus can easily be issued.
Re: Why is the US Green Party's site blocked?
#7I've worked with several kinds of public blocking lists and one thing I learned is that they are all full of false positives. For whatever reason, I would not be surprised if just nobody ever noticed the mistake.
Or someone quietly slipped it onto a block list knowing that it'd take a while to get noticed.
Re: Why is the US Green Party's site blocked?
#8It couldn't have been an honest mistake, they must have blocked it for political reasons. Imagine living in this state of paranoia.
Given the last 10 years of political "discourse" and third party election interference calling it "paranoia" seems like a very naive view of the world.
Re: Why is the US Green Party's site blocked?
#9It's also on VirusTotal
Re: Why is the US Green Party's site blocked?
#10It couldn't have been an honest mistake, they must have blocked it for political reasons. Imagine living in this state of paranoia.
I have found during Canadian election seasons that green party signs and posters are the only ones consistently vandalized. The people who think the Green party is stealing 'their' votes are unbelievably entitled. If only they knew how much that does to make them not my second choice either.
I am from Brazil, and once there was a Green Party candidate with a real shot at presidential elections, she ended in third, because the candidate that ended being in second made a heavy campaign asking people to vote for him and not "waste" votes on the Green Party that was "never going to win anyway".
They missed their chance though, because after that election the candidate in question tried to appeal to everyone by being so ambiguous that instead made everyone not trust her anymore (for example spousing communist policies and at same time choosing the richest banker in the country as vice-president).