Popular websites are massively blocked in Kazakhstan
There are countries in which web site blockings occur in even more outrageous fashion than in Russia. Very unlucky Internet users in Kazakhstan. Judging by the article in the “Kazakhstanskaya Pravda” newspaper, which Roskomsvoboda quotes , access to ten popular sites is blocked in the country. If Roskomnadzor had allowed himself such a thing in the Russian Federation, a terrible scandal would probably have broken out.
Here are some of the blocked sites in Kazakhstan.
“The list of problem resources as of August 18, 2015. The list included 17 resources, access to which was partially or completely difficult. Among them: the online archive archive.org , the international website of petitions avaaz.org , the Russian information and entertainment portal fresher.ru , the site of the British newspaper Daily Mail dailymail.co.uk , the international photo hosting site flickr.com , the blogosphere liveinternet.ru , access which is periodically blocked by the blogosphere livejournal.com , the site of the writer Leonid Kaganov lleo.me , the largest Russian literary portal proza.ru , the international information portal reddit.com , the server of modern literature "Samizdat" at the Moshkov library samlib.ru , the website for downloading media content savefrom.net, dictionary English Skogen slang urbandictionary.com. There were difficulties in using Google services - picasa.ru photo hosting and Google+ blogosphere ”.
Representatives of the main telecommunications operator Kazakhtelecom JSC explained that, by a court decision, the national operator restricts access to sites by IP address. At the same time, the IP addresses of popular sites often coincide with the IP addresses of some little-known sites and pages that are blocked by a court decision. For example, the IP address of the resource www.livejoumal.com (208.93.0.150) matches the IP address of the site www.islamunveiled.livejoumal.com (208.93.0.150), for which there is a definition of the Saryarka District Court of Astana to terminate its activities in Of Kazakhstan.
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The situation is aggravated by the fact that the list of blocked domain names and IP addresses is not publicly published in Kazakhstan, as it is done in Russia on the website reestr.rublacklist.net .
At the same time, a number of opposition sites were blocked in Kazakhstan before the court’s decision, Roskomsvoboda reports. For example, LiveJournal has been blocked since 2008, when the disgraced son-in-law of President Nazarbayev, the late Rakhat Aliyev, started a page there. Only in August 2011, the Saryarka District Court of Astana ruled to officially block LJ because of the presence of “extremist materials” there.
From September 7 to October 14, 2015, the popular video hosting Vimeo.com was blocked for "promoting the ideas of extremism and terrorism."
Here are some of the blocked sites in Kazakhstan.
“The list of problem resources as of August 18, 2015. The list included 17 resources, access to which was partially or completely difficult. Among them: the online archive archive.org , the international website of petitions avaaz.org , the Russian information and entertainment portal fresher.ru , the site of the British newspaper Daily Mail dailymail.co.uk , the international photo hosting site flickr.com , the blogosphere liveinternet.ru , access which is periodically blocked by the blogosphere livejournal.com , the site of the writer Leonid Kaganov lleo.me , the largest Russian literary portal proza.ru , the international information portal reddit.com , the server of modern literature "Samizdat" at the Moshkov library samlib.ru , the website for downloading media content savefrom.net, dictionary English Skogen slang urbandictionary.com. There were difficulties in using Google services - picasa.ru photo hosting and Google+ blogosphere ”.
Representatives of the main telecommunications operator Kazakhtelecom JSC explained that, by a court decision, the national operator restricts access to sites by IP address. At the same time, the IP addresses of popular sites often coincide with the IP addresses of some little-known sites and pages that are blocked by a court decision. For example, the IP address of the resource www.livejoumal.com (208.93.0.150) matches the IP address of the site www.islamunveiled.livejoumal.com (208.93.0.150), for which there is a definition of the Saryarka District Court of Astana to terminate its activities in Of Kazakhstan.
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The situation is aggravated by the fact that the list of blocked domain names and IP addresses is not publicly published in Kazakhstan, as it is done in Russia on the website reestr.rublacklist.net .
At the same time, a number of opposition sites were blocked in Kazakhstan before the court’s decision, Roskomsvoboda reports. For example, LiveJournal has been blocked since 2008, when the disgraced son-in-law of President Nazarbayev, the late Rakhat Aliyev, started a page there. Only in August 2011, the Saryarka District Court of Astana ruled to officially block LJ because of the presence of “extremist materials” there.
From September 7 to October 14, 2015, the popular video hosting Vimeo.com was blocked for "promoting the ideas of extremism and terrorism."
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/355880/
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