[socialmedia] Italy blocks are less friendly, FYI

[Greg Newby]

Hi social media team. I wonder whether there have been new complaints from people in Italy?

Below is my response to someone who was unable to reach www.gutenberg.org. In a nutshell, it appears that network route poisoning is being used, rather than DNS hijacking. Or some sort of combination... the result is a "connection refused," rather than a law enforcement message.

Please let me know if further reports arrive or if there is other evidence of different techniques. There still isn't anything PG can do about this, but it's good for me to know what's going on so helpdesk inquiries may be handled.

Thanks, and thanks as always for your great work tending to PG's social media!
  Greg


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