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Partially blocked, sometimes could be accessed normally, sometimes inaccessible Steam Community: steamcommunity.com steamcommunity.com Social Multilingual 15 December 2017 [28] [29] –present Blocked Spotify: spotify.com spotify.com Music streaming Multilingual 7 October 2008–present Unblocked (Service Not Available) [30] Messenger ...
An example of the Scunthorpe problem in Wikipedia because of a regular expression identifying "cunt" in the username. The Scunthorpe problem is the unintentional blocking of online content by a spam filter or search engine because their text contains a string (or substring) of letters that appear to have an obscene or otherwise unacceptable meaning.
Instead of returning the valid IP address of a requested site (for example, instead of 198.35.26.96 being returned by the DNS when "www.wikipedia.org" is entered into a browser, [2] if this IP were on a block list, the DNS might reply that the domain is unknown or with a different IP address that directs to a site with a page stating that the ...
"Shadow banning" became popularized in 2018 as a conspiracy theory when Twitter shadow-banned some Republicans. [23] In late July 2018, Vice News found that several supporters of the US Republican Party no longer appeared in the auto-populated drop-down search menu on Twitter, thus limiting their visibility when being searched for; Vice News alleged that this was a case of shadow-banning.
ISP block page translates to "Access to the resource is limited on the basis of the Federal Law of July 27, 2006 No. 149-FZ on Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection. Find out why." This is a list of notable websites that have been blocked or censored in Russia, including current and past blocks.
VPN blocking is a technique used to block the encrypted protocol tunneling communications methods used by virtual private network (VPN) systems. Often used by large organizations such as national governments or corporations, it can act as a tool for computer security or Internet censorship by preventing the use of VPNs to bypass network ...
Proxies and circumvention tools, which are illegal to use, are also frequently blocked. The majority of blocked websites are specific to Vietnam: those written in Vietnamese or dealing with issues related to Vietnam. [12] Sites not specifically related to Vietnam or only written in English are rarely blocked.
This is a list of websites that are blocked in Singapore. These websites are mainly unlicensed gambling, pimping (known as vice related activities), copyright infringement/piracy, and for spreading falsehoods. Some websites may be blocked because they are suspected scam websites. [1]