Total Retard War: The Internet Backbones censor the Internet

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Kiwi Farms

Announcements and coordination during downtime. Previews have been disabled by Telegram, sorry.

t.me

The site is only up currently because I am using a 5th Tier 1. The below information is all accurate as of 2023-JAN-09.

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The following ISPs are either rejecting our announcement or blackholing our routes (103.114.19.0/24). This is unprecedented without court order. We are a legal site being blocked by massive corporations, in violation of European Net Neutrality.

* Lumen (a/k/a CenturyLink, Qwest, Level 3) (Tier 1)
* GTT (Tier 1) (still blocking announcements from Terrahost)
* Arelion (Tier 1)
* Zayo (Tier 1)
* Voxility

It's the Christmas Season and there's limited options. VPNs (particularly from Amsterdam) will work. Tor will work. I will keep the site available as I can.

After New Years, if this is not resolved, I will declare 𝕿𝖔𝖙𝖆𝖑 𝕽𝖊𝖙𝖆𝖗𝖉 𝖂𝖆𝖗. The digital equivalents of the post office are refusing us the most fundamental levels of infrastructure simply because they do not want to deal with complaint volume. So, we will complain louder.

If we don't undo this damage, then the first nail is in the coffin for free speech online. Without hyperbole, they have established a surefire way to remove any website from the Internet and every ISP will have to deal with direct, personal harassment because they have proven IT WORKS.

If you are in these companies, you must vocally renounce this decision.
if you are in the industry and have connections, you must vigorously reject this.
If you are a direct customer, you must complain to them, and you must complain to the FCC (US) and BEREC (EU).

<https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us/articles/115002206106>
<https://www.berec.europa.eu/en/all-you-need-to-know-about-net-neutrality-rules-in-the-eu>

And if that doesn't work in short order, I will reach out to the media. The ordinary person opposed to the status quo needs to understand how unbelievably fucking insidious this is. It will absolutely happen to alternative media sources very soon. They're already lining up their next targets.

Do you want 𝓣𝓸𝓽𝓪𝓵 𝓡𝓮𝓽𝓪𝓻𝓭 𝓦𝓪𝓻?

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General discussion here:

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/centurylink-qwest-layer3-blocks-kiwi-farms.140931/

 

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Until New Years, the only action I want is from these people:

>If you are in these companies, you must vocally renounce this decision.
>if you are in the industry and have connections, you must vigorously reject this.
>If you are a direct customer, you must complain to them, and you must complain to the FCC (US) and BEREC (EU).

For everybody else:
1. Get a VPN: https://www.privacyguides.org/vpn/
2. Bookmark the Tor address: http://kiwifarmsaaf4t2h7gc3dfc5ojhmqruw2nit3uejrpiagrxeuxiyxcyd.onion/
3. Get on Telegram. Make an account. I know it wants a phone number, I don't know what to tell you. Elon won't unban me.
4. Get ready.

 

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CenturyLink has responded to the FCC explaining that they refuse to perform their role as a Tier 1 ISP due to unspecified AUP violations.

Anyone in the industry should avoid the companies Qwest, CenturyLink, Lumen (formerly Level 3).

If you are a consumer level customer of this ISP, you should leave and indicate to them that this response was unsatisfactory and you do not wish to patronize a business actively destroying the Internet.

 

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This error is a server error due to networking with my host. This error means you are connecting to the IP address. It should not be reported to your ISP.

• Three UK is a small ISP in the UK directly censoring our network. You may complain to them or the Office of Communications (Ofcom).
• Starlink customers are having outages because GTT is blackholing our network.

The ISPs currently obstructing traffic to us are Lumen (CenturyLink) and GTT. If your ISP uses them, you may have an unreliable connection to the site because of their behaviors. If you can understand your traceroute and observe that Lumen or GTT are blackholing your connections, you may complain to your ISP. You can also request they peer directly with Terrahost (AS56655).

The other ISPs (Arelion, Zayo, Voxility) have simply rejected announcements. This means they are refusing to transit, but are not actively disrupting traffic. People with associations to these companies should complain internally.

There's some more networking issues but I'm waiting for replies.

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If you are not a direct customer of these companies and don't understand the traceroutes, please do not file a complaint.

 

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GTT has lifted their blackhole and ISPs that rely on them (such as Starlink) will now have uninhibited access to the network. Only CenturyLink's Lumen (Level3) is still blackholing.

 

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GTT is still blocking Terrahost's announcement, but not a second upstream's. I have no idea what they're doing.

Trannies are attacking the site with DoS attacks and because our second upstream's VPS allocation is quite small it's not able to mitigate it effectively, which is why connections from North America are not faring well. Someone is putting in a patch to improve this.

That's basically the update. I'm hoping to hear some good news from Arelion soon, because from what I am being told, their decision was made by one retard in their American branch.

 

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CenturyLink / Qwest / Lumen (formerly LevelSneed) has stopped blackholing us.

 

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CenturyLink is again blackholing the forum

 

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Starlink is reportedly routing around Lumen (CenturyLink) to avoid the blackhole.

 

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CenturyLink and Arelion are routing again.

 

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This thread was idle because for several months we were stable. We had found a Canadian provider with enough clout and money in their business to keep us up. After several months, the datacenter he was at had been "compelled" via threats to their other customers to remove this entire company from premises.

 

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Confirmed: Donuts (identity.digital), a very large company that owns many of the novel gTLDs that have come out in the last few years, has seized sneed.today, our top-secret mirror URL.

This domain was recently reported for PII exposure. Our review has concluded the presence of repeated and clear instances of the disclosure of personal data relating to individuals, which have been posted in a manner which either directly or contextually, pose a credible threat of harm to those identified individuals. Any such use of a domain in connection with such observed conduct, is in violation of the registry's acceptable use policy.

P.S. This notice was not sent to me. I am never told why anything happens.

 

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Hurricane Electric, one of the largest ISPs in the entire world, has blocked 1776 Hosting's IPs which very briefly (~2 days) was a way to connect to the Kiwi Farms.

Hurricane Electric admits that blocking an entire subnet of IP addresses like this is unprecedented. They refuse to elaborate as to why they've done this.

HE is an extremely old, extremely large provider which owns an enormous share of all fiber optic cable in the world. Their connectivity between smaller ISPs is unparalleled. Their bandwidth is over 100Tbps. If every nerve in your body is connected to each other, much like two computers on the Internet, then Hurricane Electric would effectively be your spine - hence why they are called the Internet Backbone. The Internet Backbone is telling a small forum of a few thousand daily users that they may not exist, they will not explain why, and they are not open to meeting halfway.

However, our relationship with HE was indirect. 1776 Hosting had a relationship with an ISP, who itself had a relationship with another ISP, who has a relationship with Hurricane Electric. HE did not terminate a relationship with me, they instead obstructed my providers from receiving traffic they specifically requested because Hurricane Electric does not allow it, without stated reason, and without appeal.

What Hurricane Electric has not considered is that this relationship took place in Washington state. Washington is one of the few states which has state-level common carrier provisions for the Internet. Quote:

(2) A person engaged in the provision of broadband internet access service in Washington state, insofar as the person is so engaged, may not:
(a) Block lawful content, applications, services, or nonharmful devices, subject to reasonable network management;
(b) Impair or degrade lawful internet traffic on the basis of internet content, application, or service, or use of a nonharmful device, subject to reasonable network management;

https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=19.385.020

This cause of action cannot be brought by individuals or companies. It must be brought by the Attorney General's Office in Washington. My providers have filed complaints with the Attorney General's Office in Washington. I am preparing to do the same via representation.

If you are a citizen of Washington, your right to access legal content via your Internet connection (as guaranteed by the state of Washington, to which you pay considerable tax) has been infringed by Hurricane Electric. However, I am not asking anyone do anything at this point. We are awaiting a response from the Attorney General. If the Attorney General refuses to protect our rights, then we may need voices from the state of Washington to compel their Attorney General to protect their rights instead. If they still refuse, we have further options to pursue to compel the government to enforce its laws fairly and equitably.


Hurricane Electric's political decision making and deliberate meddling with the Internet is the most dramatic action I have ever seen in the degradation of the Internet and the erosion of our personal liberties. The only path forward is for the Internet to be regulated as a common carrier. If we allow this behavior to continue, no website may exist without the collective assent of a dozen megacorporations joined at the hip.


Edit: I have received some skeptical comments from members of the industry that this action was taken by Hurricane Electric and not by intermediary ISPs. Please see below:

https://routing.he.net/

 

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The AGO has confirmed it has received complaints from Incognet and Crunchbits and that the complaints fall under the scope of their office. I am filing mine this week.

Residents of Washington may be needed soon.


Edit 1: Small update but when we tried to route another /48 off my subnet it was also blocked immediately before ever being pushed live as an AAAA record. In short, this means the company is actively hawking my subnets and terminating them as soon as they go up to deliberately deprive Washington residents of Internet access to websites of their choice.



Edit 2: Actually, they blocked my /32, which means Hurricane Electric is blocking 65,536 network blocks containing 65,536 subscriber blocks each with each subscriber block containing 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 possible addresses. With this number, I could assign each gram of the Earth's total mass 74 IP addresses each. They have done this specifically to accomplish keeping Washington residents off the Kiwi Farms.

c 4 urself

https://routing.he.net/index.php?cmd=display_prefix_list&as=400304&router=core1.ska1.he.net&af=6&which=existing

https://archive.is/L7dD4

 

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My complaint on behalf of me and the LLCs has been filed.

 

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Hurricane Electric has responded. In summary, their points are two-fold:

1. The Kiwi Farms is criminal harassment and thus they may legally block it.
2. They didn't actually block it, they just refuse to provide it transit.

My response is three-fold.

1. An Internet forum cannot be guilty of criminal harassment. These ISP clauses about harassment concern end-users using outbound Internet connection to harm a single person, perhaps across multiple sites. The Kiwi Farms does not make unsolicited outbound connections and thereby cannot offend anyone who does not deliberately seek out and connect to the Kiwi Farms to read the material of their own volition.

2. The verb used by the Hurricane Electric routers to block the Kiwi Farms subnet is literally "deny". They have blocked my network and a lawful Internet service. To claim otherwise is intellectually dishonest and they know it.

3. The Washington State law does not even need HE to block the Kiwi Farms. Section 1 (2)(b) says:
"[ISPs] may not: Impair or degrade lawful internet traffic on the basis of internet content, application, or service, or use of a nonharmful device, subject to reasonable network management"

So they don't even need to "block" the Kiwi Farms. Connectivity to my network has been "impaired or degraded" by 100%. They are in the wrong regardless.

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There is no legitimate reason for the largest ISP in the world to act as a government censorship body. Just restore the network and the madness will be over. You know it is objectively the only correct, legal, and moral action to take.