fyi [ EU / Blocking / TOR ] ================================================================== European Commission net neutrality consultation excludes TOR users ==================================================================
Brussels, 23 July 2012 -- The European Commission blocks TOR users' access to its web site. TOR is an internet anonymisation technology and became widely popular for its facilitating role in the Arab spring movement. "This is ironic, the Commission is conducting a public consultation on net neutrality, and they already censor a part of the internet to access their site", finds FFII President Benjamin Henrion. He was troubled by the issue when he tried to access the consultation website from European Commissioner Neelie Kroes. "The European Commission is seeking answers to questions on specific aspects of transparency, traffic management and switching in an Open Internet", the website says. But TOR users receive a less inviting message: "Network Error (gateway_error) Server overloaded. The gateway may be temporarily unavailable, or there could be a network problem." =================================================================== Links =================================================================== EU Commission public consultation on "specific aspects of transparency, traffic management and switching in an Open Internet" http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/digital-agenda/actions/oit-consultation/index_en.htm All-in-one TOR Browser: https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en Earlier reporting: EU sites blocked access by users of anonymizing services http://www.whioam.com/eu-sites-blocked-access-by-users-of-anonymizing-services.html Daten-speicherung.de: EU Commission gives up blocking TOR and VPN services [corrected 27 March 2012] http://www.daten-speicherung.de/index.php/eu-commission-gives-up-blocking-tor-and-vpn-services/ Swedish Study: How the great firewall of China is blocking TOR: http://www.cs.kau.se/philwint/static/gfc/ Permanent link to this press release: http://press.ffii.org/Press%20releases/European%20Commission%20net%20neutrality%20consultation%20excludes%20TOR%20users ================================================================== Contact ================================================================== FFII Office Berlin Malmöer Str. 6 D-10439 Berlin Fon: +49-30-41722597 Fax Service: +49-721-509663769 Email: office (at) ffii.org http://www.ffii.org/ ================================================================== About FFII ================================================================== The FFII is a not-for-profit association active in twenty European countries, dedicated to the development of information goods for the public benefit, based on copyright, free competition, open standards. More than 1000 members, 3,500 companies and 100,000 supporters have entrusted the FFII to act as their voice in public policy questions concerning exclusion rights (intellectual property) in data processing. _______________________________________________ liberationtech mailing list liberationt...@lists.stanford.edu Should you need to change your subscription options, please go to: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech If you would like to receive a daily digest, click "yes" (once you click above) next to "would you like to receive list mail batched in a daily digest?" You will need the user name and password you receive from the list moderator in monthly reminders. You may ask for a reminder here: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech Should you need immediate assistance, please contact the list moderator. Please don't forget to follow us on http://twitter.com/#!/Liberationtech -- “If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first six of them sharpening my axe.” -Abraham Lincoln _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
