Are some sites being blocked by Kiwi ISPs?

Nov 15, 2009 at 12:27 PM
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Folks, I have a theory.
   After asking on Twitter, and using two different ISPs in two different cities, and trialling different browsers, I have found that in New Zealand, I (and one other Twitter friend) cannot reach our Autocade site without the browser coming up with an error asking one to save the page.
   However, using a US proxy server, there is no problem, and the page functions normally. It actually opens.
   I suspect something is afoot with ISPs in New Zealand blocking certain sites. Can friends reading this confirm this with me, please? The site is autocade.net.
   I remember last month there was quite a bit of furore on Twitter when TelstraClear customers could not reach justinflitter.com (since closed). Again, I had no problem accessing Justin’s site via a proxy server. I simply could not reach it from New Zealand, even though Justin is a New Zealander.

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I was able to access Autocade with no problem. I thought that only Red China censored the internet?

Jack Yan replied to Zak Klemmer’s comment:
Nov 15, 2009
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The difference is that you know the Reds are doing it.
The ISP seems to have messed up. I could not access this site for a week, then it began working an hour or so after I Tweeted the ISP. Coincidence?

Zak Klemmer replied to Jack Yan’s comment:
Nov 15, 2009
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Must be a techie error- I can't see a reason why NZ would censor anyone.

Jack Yan replied to Zak Klemmer’s comment:
Nov 15, 2009
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I wish I knew what it was. I get the error a lot more in Firefox. Right now, the home page only shows this:

This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.

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<OpenSearchDescription>
<ShortName>Autocade (English)</ShortName>
<Description>Autocade (English)</Description>
<Image height="16" width="16" type="image/x-icon">http://autocade.net/favicon.ico</Image>
<Url type="text/html" method="get" template="http://autocade.net/index.php?title=Special:Search&search={searchTerms}"/>
<Url type="application/x-suggestions+json" method="GET" template="http://autocade.net/api.php?action=opensearch&search={searchTerms}"/>
</OpenSearchDescription>

Zak Klemmer replied to Jack Yan’s comment:
Nov 15, 2009
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Strange!?

Well, Vox is now dead. I can comment, but that’s all I can do. No composing, adding photos, adding videos, nothing.

Are some sites being blocked by Kiwi ISPs?

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