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------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 01:05:18 -0400 To: politech@politechbot.com From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> Subject: FC: More on Germany pressuring ISPs to block "offensive" sites Send reply to: declan@well.com
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From: "Bettina Jodda (Twister)" <twister@stop1984.com> To: declan@well.com Subject: Censorship in Germany -----erm, pardon: Protecting Germans against evil sites Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 23:35:14 +0200
Hi, Declan Hi, John
after reading the summary of the Northrhine-Westfalia case (censorship regarding the right-wing sites) I could not help but send you the following news:
German provider QSC (QSC.de) protects his customers against that evil site www.stormfront.org by faking the DNS record. QSC´s nameserver is cns01.qsc.de (213.148.129.10).
So when you try to access www.stormfront.org (original IP 216.12.219.26) you end up at the following site: www.bezreg-duesseldorf.nrw.de (193.159.218.178)
See also the following entry in our discussion board: http://f25.parsimony.net/forum63036/messages/9495.htm
Twister
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From: "Lothar Kimmeringer" <lothar@kimmeringer.de> To: "Declan McCullagh" <declan@well.com> Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 17:50:52 +0200
http://heise.de/newsticker/data/wst-13.09.02-000/ (german)
QSC, a german-wide operating internet-provider, is forced by the local government of Dusseldorf to deny access to two websites containing material that is forbidden in germany.
Because of this all QSC's customers can't access these websites, not only the customers in the Dusseldorf-area. Because the ban is realized with answering DNS-requests with a different IP, it's not very hard to get around the ban. Interesting about that is that the responded IP for a request of a banned web-site is the website of the local government of Dusseldorf allowing them to find out who is trying to get access to these websites.
Regards, Lothar