On: US Government Uptime Monitor

[alecsm]

This uptime monitor must be streaming illegal football (soccer) because it's blocked in Spain.

    IP              Provider                       Status
    188.114.97.5 AS13335 (CLOUDFLARENET, US)     Blocked
    188.114.96.5 AS13335 (CLOUDFLARENET, US)     Blocked

And the funny thing is free football is working as always. I know because a friend is watching a game right now while he comments on HN.

[prmoustache → alecsm]

cloudflare. Most of the internet behind cloudflare is blocked whenever there are football being played in La Liga (the Spanish League).

[drnick1 → alecsm]

This is outrageous. Does Spain have a "Great Firewall" like China?

[alecsm → drnick1]

No, they just make all ISP operating in the country mass block IPs.

[sunaookami → alecsm]

And one of the biggest ISPs, Telefonica, holds the rights to the soccer matches so they happily comply!

[sunaookami → drnick1]

Every EU country has one, on nation- and on EU-level.

[CaptainOfCoit → sunaookami]

> and on EU-level

Are you claiming there is a EU-wide firewall that EU could use (not the countries themselves) to block arbitrary websites? The EU hate on HN is reaching conspiracy-type levels now it seems.

[sunaookami → CaptainOfCoit]

RT.com, Sputnik News, etc. are blocked by the EU and the EU countries have to obey it, they have no say in this. This was done by Von der Leyen without any parliamentary oversight. It doesn't matter what your view on these sites is, it was a dangerous precedent. It also affects the TV stations.