A look at DNS-censorship in Norway
Mar 2nd, 2007 by anonymous
DNS censorship is a form of sensorship where DNS servers are (mis)configured to give the wrong answer to given domains. You want to go to a website, the name (www.something.tld) is translated by your ISP’s DNS servers into a IP, and your browser goes to that IP. But DNS servers do not need to tell you the correct IP for the website you are asking for, and some ISPs in tyrannic regimes such as Norway intentionally misconfigure their DNS-servers in order to censor the Internet.
A close examination at various ISPs reveal that Norwegian ISPs:
- Telenor and
- NextGenTel
..are doing DNS censorship. These ISPs will give you the wrong IP for many websites and take the user to a page which basically says “You can’t have this page, and you’re a bad person for wanting to view it”.
These Norwegian Internet providers does not censor their customers DNS queries on behalf of the tyrannical Norwegian government:
- Ventelo (Bluecom)
- Halden Dataservice
- Powertech
- BKK Bredbånd
- Monet
- UiO
Source: DNS censorship
Thus; Norwegian Telenor and NextGenTel are very alone in doing this kind of censorship. It’s interesting to note that many within the Norwegian government are pushing agressively to force all ISPs to do thing kind of censorship.
One minor detail: You don’t have to use your ISPs DNS servers. It is very easy to configure your computer to use DNS servers located abroad - or other local DNS servers - if your ISP’s DNS servers are misconfigured to to this kind of censorship. It’s also possible to use the network security tool Tor to by-pass your ISP’s DNS servers.
You call the norwegian government tyrannical because two of his ISP, out of 8 are censoring DNS ?
First of all, who tell you it’s the norwegian government who ask for this ?
Emphasized words are not information.
dobo, Norway is a country where covert government torture for questioning the criminal regime is common. Norwegian ISPs censorship is just another snowflake on the iceberg of Norwegian tyrrany.
And it is a branch of the Norwegian government Department of Justice who are asking ISPs to censor the Internet. However, they can only strongly suggust that they do it as of now, there is no law that forces ISPs to do it (not that the government cares much about laws anyway, they usually just torture people who don’t comply with their demands). However, there is a drafted law that will much likely be passed in the near future which will force all Norwegian ISPs to censor their customers connections.
What a thought provoking post, thank you.
Do you have any kind of source or evidence to back this claim that the goverment tortures citizens?
Words are easy.
the only thing NGT and Telenor DNS’ is censoring is child pornography.
Now, I assume you’ve heard this before - and likewise I’m sure it only fuels your inner deamons - YOU ARE RAVING MAD!
Paranoid schizophrenia perhaps? I feel sorry for you, I really do. But if you choose to publish your twisted thoughs I’m more than willing to retort.
Your so called source of DNS sensorship is published by “xiando” (perhaps you?) who describes him self like this :
“I am just a mind-controlled person from Norway. While resist and refuse the fascist global mind control state, the on-going surveillance, Psychotronics and (Gang-)Stalking Operation the Norwegian government, by means of the local terrorist network “Politiets sikkerhetstjeneste”, started after I started uncovering and spread the truth behind all the lies, justifications and propaganda presented by the local government and the predominant media is quite likely influencing me somewhat regardless of my resistance.”
Riiight. Seems like a credible and trustworthy source. Bonkers!
He also gives a brief description of Norway :
“Norway, or officially the Kingdom of Norway (Norwegian: Kongeriket Norge or Kongeriket Noreg) is a Nordic country on the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula where the Police covertly torture law-abiding citizens for exercising freedom of speech that opposes the tyrannic government.
Norway looks good from the outside and has a nice facade. Behind it is a fascist state that tortures citizens for thinking and writing anything that goes against what the government would have people believe using directed energy weapons, mind control weapons and other advanced technology.”
So what DOES in fact NGT and Telenor prevent you from watching that provokes our delightful friend here?
Here’s two examples given by “xiando” :
alolita.com (69.5.162.133)
lolicontgp.com (85.17.102.36)
Low and behold : A page that holds links to porn sites that contains cosy stuff like “* * * * * SMALL GIRL!!! FUCKED BY FAMILY * * * *” and a page that contains cartoon drawings of children beeing abused.
And all of this from a twisted fuck who has the following items on his wishlist for christmas :
* Freedom to think
* Freedom of expression
* Respect for basic human rights by the government in the country where I live (I’m kind of hoping to get this when I move to Sweden in the near future)
* AG3 - It’s a very nice weapon! Works even when it is very cold and can be used against targets up to 1km away. The bullets go about 4km, but you need to be very good to hit anything that far away.
* MP5 - A smaller version of AG3. Very nice. The papers on it claim it can be used for targets at distances up to 400 meters. However, it’s only usable up to 100 meters - if you are skilled.
* Glock - very nice weapon. However, 1mm off means you hit half a meter off targets 25 meters away. Thus, it is only effective for targets who are 5-10 meters away. And if the police officers are that close then they are able to hear you, meaning you can try to talk some sense into them instead of shooting them. Talking to police is generally worth a try, specially if they are in uniform. The most brainwashed police, who are part of the “secret” police (at least here in Norway) are NOT ALLOWED to wear normal uniforms. Thus; shooting police in uniform is generally bad because they likely - unlike the secret police - have functioning brains.
* 12-7 Sniper. Very sweeeet weapon. Sexy.
* Anti-satellite weapons
* Anti-NATO DeathRay(tm)-weapons
* Ground-to-air missiles
* The F-117A Nighthawk. It’s a bit old, but it still seems like a nice toy.
“Sadly, I know: The tyrannical New World Order-controlled torturing Norwegian government are not about to allow me, you or your family to have access to any of these things!”
Sadly?! Luckily I dare say!!!
(Source : http://xiandos.info/Xiando:About)
Hello, just wanted to drop a note that Finland is now implementing dns censorship, too.
And I got bored, so I scanned a portion of the Norwegian DNS censorship list, along with the Swedish one and the Finnish one I had gotten scanned earlier already.
Norway: http://lapsiporno.info/blocked.nextgentel
Sweden: http://lapsiporno.info/blocked.glocalnet
Finland: http://lapsiporno.info/suodatuslista/?lang=en
They’re not complete, obviously, since they haven’t been leaked. My method of obtaining the lists should be completely legal, too
One thing is being paranoid, another is presenting information as facts - when they in fact are lacking, to say the least.
Many more ISPs than the ones you mention are blocking child sexual abusive pages, and (behold!) most people are not into children being abused, and does not mind…
Freedom this and freedom that, where is your fight for the freedom of the children being shown off so that delinquent men can masturbate while looking at them?? Lets be hones people, thats the only use of such images. Why not fight for the rights for the children? Is it only freedom for YOU?
“Stupid, one sided and moronic idiot” is a more fitting description of you and your peers than “Knight in shining armor, fighting for freedom”.
Heh. The Finnish blocklist now includes my site too, despite the fact it has no child porn content on it. I suppose it was too much for me to point out that the majority of the blocked sites reside in USA or EU, and are likely to contain no child porn whatsoever.
To gonzoo:
“Many more ISPs than the ones you mention are blocking child sexual abusive pages, and (behold!) most people are not into children being abused, and does not mind…”
No, they are _saying they block abusive pages_. What they _do_ is something different. And that’s the whole point of this argumentation.
See the difference?
As you can see yourself from Nikki’s list, they block a lot of anything, but very little or zero child porn. And that, my friend, is illegal censorship if any.
Kudos to Matti for his efforts.