CenturyLink/Qwest/Layer3 blocks Kiwi Farms

[Pastor Martin Ssempa]

The ACLU used to believe in free speech for everyone, too. Now their commitment to civil rights ends where woke feelings begin.

The left sure changed once it got ahold of power.

“When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.” - Frank Herbert

 

[The Wokest]

I've filed a complaint with the FCC against CenturyLink.

Go get them tiger

 

[Shotgun Badger]

Currently glad I live in Europe.

 

[TheGuntinator]

Why must they make it so hard to gossip without this gun-to-your-head feeling? The only site left that wont ban you for expressing negstive sentiments about basically anything. Youtube trained their bot to instantly remove things with negative sentiments, reddit has demomstrated they will protect predators and I dont even need to explain Twitter. I just want to call a cunt a cunt and not immediately get childed by a soulless machine designed to completely snuff out human input. You cant even complain without a dozen layers of bots filtering you out before your words ever reach a human.

 

[Captain Manning]

For what it's worth, CenturyLink has a pretty big presence in Arizona. If you're from here, and CenturyLink is fucking with the Farms, you might consider switching ISPs to Cox Communications out of protest (their biggest competitor in this market). I personally think you should consider it even if you have the ability to switch to another DNS server without switching ISPs. Fuck Centurylink for doing this. They don't deserve your money.

I can confirm Cox's DNS servers are fine with the Farms. At least the ones in the Phoenix metro area.



P.S. I've stated elsewhere on the Farms, a couple of different times, that I live in the 5th largest city in the U.S. (by population). I don't care. Just want to be helpful.
P.P.S. LOL. Cocks. We're served by COCKS.

As EFF has pointed out in their campaign already, the precedent getting set means everything is now up for grabs including Usenet if it becomes more popular.

I can't see Usenet being too popular anytime soon.

Usenet was killed by a combination of Web 2.0 (including advanced forum software) and high speed Internet. It was very relevant in the 80s and 90s, but I don't see how it would ever be again. It's got too many limitations. Many news servers were shut down from lack of use. Many more have limited access to the "Big 8 hierarchies." I used it a lot back in dial-up times, but I don't know a single person who uses it today. Or why they'd want to.

 

[Cpt. Stud Beefpile]

Don't just limit ourselves to the EFF, spread this notice to EVERY anti-censorship place that we possibly can.

Is there anyone on the Farms who works here and might know who, exactly, was responsible for the plug-pulling?

 

[Crabbo]

Still betting its tyranny jannies trying to pull some bullshit

 

[V E R M I L L I O N]

CenturyLink fucking blows. I had it back in 2019, and literally if it was unplugged I'd have better speed. And they'd Jew you with shitty equipment you have to replace every week. Literally on a good day, you're lucky if you can pull 2 MBPS.

Now with my new ISP, we get 400 MBPS on a bad day.

 

[Falcon Sebben]

That's just ignoring the problem.

Not really. This takes it outside of the hands of your ISP. They can't block it this way. Besides if you're going on the internet without basic protection like a VPN then you're basically exposed. I always recommend an VPN especially if you're on public WiFi.

Can KiwiFarms become a telnet service?

Yeah, let's go back to using Lynx. Text only. No images.

I can't see Usenet being too popular anytime soon.

Usenet used to be the best. Could pick up dozens of pirated movies and whatever off the binary channels. That and the sneed you got from the discussion channels was always fun. Now? There's really no point with high speed internet and underground sites that allow to you download whatever you want.

 

[Gravemind]

For what it's worth, CenturyLink has a pretty big presence in Arizona. If you're from here, and CenturyLink is fucking with the Farms, you might consider switching ISPs to Cox Communications out of protest (their biggest competitor in this market). I personally think you should consider it even if you have the ability to switch to another DNS server without switching ISPs. Fuck Centurylink for doing this. They don't deserve your money.

I can confirm Cox's DNS servers are fine with the Farms. At least the ones in the Phoenix metro area.

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P.S. I've stated elsewhere on the Farms, a couple of different times, that I live in the 5th largest city in the U.S. (by population). I don't care. Just want to be helpful.
P.P.S. LOL. Cocks. We're served by COCKS.

Do you not experience constant outages, hard throttling, and consistently shitty customer service with Cox though? Because a friend of mine over in California had been using Cox for the longest time and their internet was constantly shitting itself with all of the above under their service.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

CenturyLink is the worst fucking ISP I have ever had the misfortune of using.

Let me tell you a story. I have a friend who owns a small business in town. He decided to beef up his security, so asked me to install security cameras. He wisely decided he didn't want anything that used the cloud, but he still wanted remote access. So I said hey, no problem, let me get you an OpenWRT router and set up VPN access. All we have to do is use this fun feature in the CenturyLink router/modem that turns it into just a modem.

Except it didn't work. This was several years ago and I don't remember everything I went through, but I spent two months off and on trying to get it to work. Replaced the modem, and on-site tech, tried all kinds of insane config options and bullshit. After about 30 hours talking to CenturyLink, desperately trying to find someone capable of fixing their shit, I eventually broke down and told my friend he would have no choice but to switch to a much higher priced ISP. He did and it worked instantly.

I never found out what actual the problem was, except that it was something with CenturyLink.

 

[404 User Not Found]

GTT was the first to do it and they're in bankruptcy.

Who must go?

 

[Hannibalistique]

Not really. This takes it outside of the hands of your ISP. They can't block it this way. Besides if you're going on the internet without basic protection like a VPN then you're basically exposed. I always recommend an VPN especially if you're on public WiFi.

The troon loons will eventually go after the VPN services, and ISP will likely start blocking VPN services (VPN services robs them of "valuable" customer insights/profiling they can sell to advertisers) if there's no net neutrality.

 

[Pee Cola]

Usenet used to be the best. Could pick up dozens of pirated movies and whatever off the binary channels. That and the sneed you got from the discussion channels was always fun. Now? There's really no point with high speed internet and underground sites that allow to you download whatever you want.

alt.binaries.* are still kicking along, or so I'm told. tbh it's been a while since I've used a paid news server, though now I kinda want to just so I can pirate like in the good old days.

As for discussions... if the screws keep being tightened on sites like KF and the push to completely homogenize the internet continues unabated, free thinkers may have no choice but to sneed in the shadows like it's 1989.

 

[V E R M I L L I O N]

CenturyLink is the worst fucking ISP I have ever had the misfortune of using.

Let me tell you a story. I have a friend who owns a small business in town. He decided to beef up his security, so asked me to install security cameras. He wisely decided he didn't want anything that used the cloud, but he still wanted remote access. So I said hey, no problem, let me get you an OpenWRT router and set up VPN access. All we have to do is use this fun feature in the CenturyLink router/modem that turns it into just a modem.

Except it didn't work. This was several years ago and I don't remember everything I went through, but I spent two months off and on trying to get it to work. Replaced the modem, and on-site tech, tried all kinds of insane config options and bullshit. After about 30 hours talking to CenturyLink, desperately trying to find someone capable of fixing their shit, I eventually broke down and told my friend he would have no choice but to switch to a much higher priced ISP. He did and it worked instantly.

I never found out what actual the problem was, except that it was something with CenturyLink.

Yeah, literally everyone who works for CenturyLink is an autist. They didn't even know how their own shit worked when I called them either.

 

[Captain Manning]

CenturyLink fucking blows. I had it back in 2019, and literally if it was unplugged I'd have better speed. And they'd Jew you with shitty equipment you have to replace every week

Can confirm. They rent out cheap Chinese/Taiwanese modems/routers. Had one go out on me a week after unboxing it. I think it was a Zyxel, or some shit. Was fucking obnoxious.

Usenet used to be the best. Could pick up dozens of pirated movies and whatever off the binary channels. That and the sneed you got from the discussion channels was always fun. Now? There's really no point with high speed internet and underground sites that allow to you download whatever you want.

Usenet was fucking great...

...in 1997. When 56k modems were cutting edge.

I can be nostalgic about something, but also agree that the world has pretty clearly moved on. I see absolutely no chance of a Usenet resurgence. If the clearweb goes completely to shit, Tor is a more likely substitute. Browser based technology has advanced too far to justify going back to Usenet. An alt.kiwifarms would blow for a number of reasons. A lot of younger users would be like "WTF is this shit!?," and the major issue is that most of the surviving news servers would be bullied into not carrying the group.

Do you not experience constant outages, hard throttling, and consistently shitty customer service with Cox though? Because a friend of mine over in California had been using Cox for the longest time and their internet was constantly shitting itself with all of the above under their service.

No, it's fine here, actually. California might be shit though. I dunno.

Customer service seems marginal, but thankfully I haven't had to contact them much.

Mind you, there's also other options in my market and elsewhere. I'm not shilling Cox so much as pointing out it seems to play well with the Farms so far.

 

[Cpt. Stud Beefpile]

Can confirm. They rent out cheap Chinese/Taiwanese modems/routers. Had one go out on me a week after unboxing it. I think it was a Zyxel, or some shit. Was fucking obnoxious.


Usenet was fucking great...

...in 1997. When 56k modems were cutting edge.

I can be nostalgic about something, but also agree that the world has pretty clearly moved on. I see absolutely no chance of a Usenet resurgence. If the clearweb goes completely to shit, Tor is a more likely substitute. Browser based technology has advanced too far to justify going back to Usenet. An alt.kiwifarms would blow for a number of reasons. A lot of younger users would be like "WTF is this shit!?," and the major issue is that most of the surviving news servers would be bullied into not carrying the group.

Yeah I have to give a sad agreement to this. I'm still rocking my IRC client for my DOS game groups and even boot up my fav BBS on occasion...but there is absolutely no fucking way (unfortunately) that you're going to get a modern kid to use anything that old. Tablets and phones are all the rage and their attention span is fucking pathetic. A text-based client? Forget it. Tor software is the outmost limit of what anyone born after 2000 is gonna bother to use.

 

[PFM]

Usenet used to be the best. Could pick up dozens of pirated movies and whatever off the binary channels. That and the sneed you got from the discussion channels was always fun. Now? There's really no point with high speed internet and underground sites that allow to you download whatever you want.

Usenet was fucking great...

...in 1997. When 56k modems were cutting edge.

I can be nostalgic about something, but also agree that the world has pretty clearly moved on. I see absolutely no chance of a Usenet resurgence. If the clearweb goes completely to shit, Tor is a more likely substitute. Browser based technology has advanced too far to justify going back to Usenet. An alt.kiwifarms would blow for a number of reasons. A lot of younger users would be like "WTF is this shit!?," and the major issue is that most of the surviving news servers would be bullied into not carrying the group.


No, it's fine here, actually. California might be shit though. I dunno.

Customer service seems marginal, but thankfully I haven't had to contact them much.

Mind you, there's also other options in my market and elsewhere. I'm not shilling Cox so much as pointing out it seems to play well with the Farms so far.

Usenet is still the best for movies IMO. No worries about seeding or invites or any of that shit. Donwloads completely saturate my Gbit line.

And if anyone in Az is using Centurylink it's because they have no other option. I've been with Cox for a long time and have no complaints.

 

[Gravemind]

Mind you, there's also other options in my market and elsewhere. I'm not shilling Cox so much as pointing out it seems to play well with the Farms so far.

Of course. I'm mostly just pointing out that I have anecdotal testimony that mileage may vary with Cox.

 

[Cronkle]

I have Sprint that turned into Tmobile and KF will not load, can only access the site when on wifi with StarLink.

Same. Figured the site was just down again til I checked telegram. It’s absolutely insane to me the lengths these freaks will go. To hate a website so bad that you use that much of your time and energy in an attempt to ruin it for people who enjoy it is fuckin bonkers to me