After Youtube: Wikipedia Censorship?

[absolutelyBangkok]

After the Youtube-saga - is now Wikipedia shut down for Thai users?

Can't connect to several Wikipedia-sites since several days, some are gone since over two weeks.

But no blocking page of the relevant Ministry shows up.

Anybody here can connect to Wikipedia?

Am on True ADSL.

[Firefoxx]

It's just a bad configuration on True's side. If it were actual censorship, you would have been met with a "this is an inappropriate website yadayadayada" page when you tried to access it. A timeout means that True stupid engineers (nothing new).

Set your proxy to True's proxy (it should be written somewhere in your documentation, if not, then on True's website), and it should work.

[Wolf]

This topic came up a few weeks ago - somebody suggested this solution and it did the job for me:

Explorer

Tools > Internet Options > Connections > Lan Settings > Proxy server > Click box > Address: proxy.asianet.co.th > Port: 80

Ok Ok

[absolutelyBangkok]

Excellent - relieve and thanks!

[Plus]

But wouldn't it affect lots of other applications?

p2p and torrents won't work through proxy, Internet video broadcasts won't work through proxies, many programs, like Firefox, will need to be reconfigured, too.

I actually have a little .vbs script for proxy switching in just one click, it's on the notebook, though. As soon as I get to it, I'll post it here. It's a one page in Notepad file, you can edit it yourself, nothing fancy.

Beats going through all the Control panel/internet options/connections/lan settings/proxies windows every time you need to see wiki and it doesn't work.

[lopburi3]

Actually the instructions are for browser - for Firefox it is tools/options/advanced/network/connection - your browser uses the proxy - not your computer.

[Veazer]

But wouldn't it affect lots of other applications?

p2p and torrents won't work through proxy, Internet video broadcasts won't work through proxies, many programs, like Firefox, will need to be reconfigured, too.

I actually have a little .vbs script for proxy switching in just one click, it's on the notebook, though. As soon as I get to it, I'll post it here. It's a one page in Notepad file, you can edit it yourself, nothing fancy.

Beats going through all the Control panel/internet options/connections/lan settings/proxies windows every time you need to see wiki and it doesn't work.

If you're a firefox user, you could use FoxyProxy. You can setup rules for using proxies (or not) based on domain names.

[sriracha john]

Not blocked...

another false alarm...

Edited November 17, 2007 by sriracha john

[lopburi3]

Not being able to access works out the same - those using TRUE internet have not been able to access that website without using the TRUE proxy recently.

[Firefoxx]

Although the end result is the same, the implications are very different.

Say there is a despotic country that's under close scrutiny by the international press. The people hold a rally for democracy and head for the government offices. The road is blocked, and they can't go any further. If the road was blocked because of pipeline construction that started weeks ago, there would be no problem. The people would just find another route, and continue. However, if the road was blocked by armed troops with orders to use extreme measures, it would be a whole different story.

For this weird glitch, Wikipedia was not actually blocked. It's just a configuration error on True's side, easily fixed. If it were like Youtube in the past, it would be different. The thread (and the way to circumvent the block) would be deleted.

The thing is that True uses a weird transparent proxy system that forces all http traffic through proxies, even though we don't set the proxies. This leads to some weird behavior for certain websites. For example, rapidshare, which is a popular file hosting site, will NEVER accept the "code" for free downloads if you use True without proxies. However, it works when you setup your browser to use True's proxy.

[A_Traveller]

Perhaps, in True's case, the more apposite term would be translucent proxy?

Regards