-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 I'm going to ask that the lists begin discussing in a different thread, revised guidelines for use of GPG. If for no other reason than that things that taking donations of different (now hundreds) of cryptocurrencies, and that breathing or farting or feeding your pigs is now illegal, I think that we need to at least make some kind of halfhearted attempt to discuss when and in what circumstances GPG (ok, if you like I am tired, and you can say PGP too) key exchange is best for whole list and not just for betweent two persons. Dasvedanya, etc. - -O Seth:

On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 03:09:36 -0800, Anton Nesterov wrote:

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Today President of Belarus signed a law which provides heavy regulation to freedom of speech. Basically, it makes any website media and forbids "information aimed at the propaganda of the war, extremist activities, or the calls for such activities, pornography, violence, cruelty, and any other informations which distribution can harm national interest of the Republic of Belarus, or forbidden by this law, or by any other legislative act of the Republic of Belarus". It also force owners of websites to moderate user-generated content. Any website which violate this will be blocked. Also the law forbids any media with more than 20% of foreign investors.

These days I actually celebrate each and every nation state attack on Internet freedom. The logic being that these attacks drive mass adoption of decentralized encryption better than anything else.

The RIAA Succeeds Where the Cypherpunks Failed by Clay Shirky http://www.shirky.com/writings/riaa_encryption.html

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On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 7:11 PM, rysiek wrote:

So, my question is: how exactly are they going about blocking the websites? Is it a DNS-based block? DPI and content-based one? Anything else? Any info on it?

DNS resolution appears fine, based on traceroutes it does not appear to be more sophisticated than address blocking at the international frontier by the few gateway, in the case of Beltelecom near the border routers at 93.85.80.0/24. -- *Collin David Anderson* averysmallbird.com | @cda | Washington, D.C.