The ISP Verizon is starting to censor your internet

Couldnt find a thread about this so i thought i would share.
 

• So do any of you have Verizon as an ISP? 
• Does the idea that they are starting to dictate what you can and can not view online worry you any? 
• What would you do if you found out your ISP started to block your favorite sites, like giantbomb.com for example?

That is pretty rediculous 
 
 Although that website is known for hosting illegal pictures such as Child Pornography so i guess it makes sense for it. 
 
I don't see them being able to ban other sites unless its something illegal like torrents

That sounds like a gift honestly. Who the hell wants to go to 4chan...

The Anonymous party will attack the Verizon headquarters.  
 
Do want.

Hhhmm...I've been hearing about that site but never bothered to look it up till now. It looks like a cheap version of any image hosting site. What makes this one better? Just curious.

I have Verizon and can visit 4chan.
 
Lookin at the 4chan main page now.

 I'll get the popcorn.

" That is pretty rediculous   Although that website is known for hosting illegal pictures such as Child Pornography so i guess it makes sense for it.  I don't see them being able to ban other sites unless its something illegal like torrents "

I have fios at home (not like im at home) so I wouldn't even be affected. This is funny though.

" @crusader8463 it seems ONLY Verizon wireless ISP does this. Not Fios or DSL.  I have FIOS which works fine.  Seems the site the OP used did not do their full research before posting about this. "

Poole, a.k.a. Moot, responded to our email this morning, confirming that only Verizon Wireless customers were effected by the block - not FIOS/DSL customers. As for the reason for the block, he wrote, "None of the techs could give us a definitive answer. It took them hours to even figure out/acknowledge the block was occurring on their end."

" I have Verizon and can visit 4chan.  Lookin at the 4chan main page now. "

" @The_Laughing_Man said:

" I have Verizon and can visit 4chan.  Lookin at the 4chan main page now. "

Hm...maybe this is how it works (from link):
 
 UPDATE: Poole, a.k.a. Moot, responded to our email this morning, confirming that only Verizon Wireless customers were effected by the block - not FIOS/DSL customers. As for the reason for the block, he wrote, "None of the techs could give us a definitive answer. It took them hours to even figure out/acknowledge the block was occurring on their end." "

The last time an ISP blocked 4chan it was only temporarily because of something to do with DDOS attacks. I doubt that this is anything different, since censoring what sites people could visit just opens them up to a huge amount of backlash. Not to mention they have no reason to censor anything, since they're not liable for what sites their users visit.

This happened a while ago/still happening. I was a /b/tard back then and they were very pissed. I live in Canada and have Bell, which wouldn't be an issue because Bell aren't that full of themselves.

Good.  4chan is a blight on this Earth.

" And everybody says Comcast sucks, Huh. "

That sucks for Verizon.  Wait a sec.......Alltel is combined with Verizon now.   FUCK!

" @natetodamax said:

" @Atomasist said:

" And everybody says Comcast sucks, Huh. "

Comcast is the worst no matter what. "

Your right, that's why my internet works perfectly, and I am not blocked from content. "

Verizon should be prepared for some serious downtime as soon as the 4Chan war-machine gets moving.

I recently switched from Verizon to cable internet (Mediacom).  I don't give a shit about 4chan, but it's bullshit that they can decide what sites you can or can't visit.

Goodie, now let's get all the other ISPs in the world to band together and rid the internet of 4chan forever.  
 
Let me know when they do something ACTUALLY annoying. Like ban GB. 

" @natetodamax said:

" @Atomasist said:

" And everybody says Comcast sucks, Huh. "

Comcast is the worst no matter what. "

Your right, that's why my internet works perfectly, and I am not blocked from content. "

Blocking sites is better than knowing people are going to sites with child porn and being forced to take legal action. Saves paperwork, just blocking the sites wholesale.

4chan should be blocked by every ISP...good riddance is what I would say.

I remember when 4chan forced thier creator into the top spot for times most influential person of the last 100 years or some shit, it was funny as hell until time banned all votes for said guy and 4chan decided to attack. Then it just got messy.

" @natetodamax said:

" @Atomasist said:

" @natetodamax said:

" @Atomasist said:

" And everybody says Comcast sucks, Huh. "

Comcast is the worst no matter what. "

Your right, that's why my internet works perfectly, and I am not blocked from content. "

Try explaining why our internet randomly dies out at least once a week (used to be once a day) which also means our phones don't work. "

Call them and complain. I live on mountain, there's 2 feet of snow outside right now, and have never had my internet go out. "

" @natetodamax:  I don't know what to tell you man, comcast sucks. "

Internet censorship sucks. But then again, SOURCE is not a very good source.

Anyone supporting internet censorship, of even 4chan, is an idiot. 
 
@crusader8463:  Where's your source? The link to an article? Something or other? Do you want me to go find one for you?

" Hhhmm...I've been hearing about that site but never bothered to look it up till now. It looks like a cheap version of any image hosting site. What makes this one better? Just curious. "

Why oh why would you piss off 4Chan?!

i have verizon and it worked when i checked just now.

Even if it's just Verizon wireless... but... I've never even used a phone web browser, so I don't know if there is already some sort of precedent for the blocking of high-volume image/video downloading and/or porn filtering going on. Also can't see a source (no link as of this edit), so I won't throw any judgment at Verizon.
 
Though judging from some of the posts in this thread, I'm not even going to bother trying to explain why censoring a website (*any* website) is wrong, the implications of censorship on the internet, and why you should care.

I think it's fucked up as a precedent, but also hilarious since it's 4chan. But no matter how much of a distaste I have for 4chan, Verizon's behavior is not what America is about.

Even if 4chan is a scummy place, it's the place on the internet for deviant, deviant porn, if you're into that. How could you throw that away?

I'm sure someone has already suggested this, but AT&T should fund Anonymous and see to it that Verizon's 3G network is "taken care of."

The last time this happened it was AT&T, and they unblocked it with a week.

" I'm sure someone has already suggested this, but AT&T should fund Anonymous and see to it that Verizon's 3G network is "taken care of." "

"Verizon's behavior is not what America is about. "