Sri Lanka blocks TamilNet

kumarasiri

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    Ane yako.....
    tho wage ballo nisaa thamaa ratata hena gahanne......
    Tho danna magula.... Aapu thanatama palako.... Prabhage redda assata....
     

    x-pert

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    Tamil net eke updates api dennam... nadda neon... Apita block nahane.. ;)

    Habai boru mokatada bung... :yes:

    ElaKiri wadak habai karala thiyanne... :yes: :yes:




    ko me po** koti patiya.... :growl:
     

    chabu

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    trp123 said:
    ubalta puluwan eka deyak: athe gahanna. mama hithane ubalata ekath ba, eke wennathi mala panala atthe. ubala okkoma ponsiyo set ekak neda?

    Ei Kari Kolla Ubata Nam Mava Matahaka Nathuva Athi. Ube Ammagen Ahapan Eye Ra Kath ekkada Nida Kiyala. Ethakota Amma Ubata Kiyai
     

    bandula

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    Sri Lanka seeks hackers to down pro-Tiger website

    COLOMBO (AFP) - Sri Lanka's government said it would like to hire hackers to dismantle a pro-Tamil Tiger website, as media groups said access to the site was already blocked.

    Tamilnet.com has been blocked for several days on the "advice" of the government, local rights group the Free Media Movement (FMM) said. A Sri Lanka Telecom official confirmed the site was being filtered.

    When asked about the decision, the government's spokesman insisted he was unaware of the measure -- but said authorities should expand their arsenal in the long-running ethnic conflict.

    "I do not know, but I would love to hire some hackers," Keheliya Rambukwella said, while adding that he had no access to people who could do the job.

    London-based Tamilnet.com, which publishes news and opinion about the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka, confirmed its site was blocked by Sri Lanka Telecom -- the war-torn country's main Internet service provider.

    "The de facto climate of self-censorship that has already plagued local media in Sri Lanka has now culminated in mischievous infringement into the freedom of global media," Tamilnet.com said.

    The government owns just under 50 percent of Sri Lanka Telecom, which is run by NTT of Japan.

    The Sri Lanka-based FMM said it was "deeply disturbed" over what it said was yet another attack on media freedom.

    "This is a significant turn in the erosion of media freedom in Sri Lanka and clearly demonstrates the extent to which media is censored," the media group said in a statement.

    Some Internet service providers, who have their main offices abroad, still allow access to the website, which is an influential source of Tamil views on the island's separatist conflict that has claimed more than 60,000 lives in 35 years.

    The censorship move also coincides with a visit to Sri Lanka by a group of international media rights activists investigating widespread reports of increased attacks on and intimidation of the local media.
     

    chabu

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    trp123 said:
    pala hutto yanna, tho vanachara sinhala balla thota lagidima puke arinava kavuruhari. tho kari ballla.

    Aha Puka Vikunan Kana Eka Ayeth Avada Hodai Apu eka. Ammata Kiyapan Hamotama Denna Epa Kiyala. Ethin Uba Hadanne Puke Araganna Thama Ethin
     

    GNS

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    UF., Gampaha.
    bandula said:
    COLOMBO (AFP) - Sri Lanka's government said it would like to hire hackers to dismantle a pro-Tamil Tiger website, as media groups said access to the site was already blocked.

    Tamilnet.com has been blocked for several days on the "advice" of the government, local rights group the Free Media Movement (FMM) said. A Sri Lanka Telecom official confirmed the site was being filtered.

    When asked about the decision, the government's spokesman insisted he was unaware of the measure -- but said authorities should expand their arsenal in the long-running ethnic conflict.

    "I do not know, but I would love to hire some hackers," Keheliya Rambukwella said, while adding that he had no access to people who could do the job.

    London-based Tamilnet.com, which publishes news and opinion about the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka, confirmed its site was blocked by Sri Lanka Telecom -- the war-torn country's main Internet service provider.

    "The de facto climate of self-censorship that has already plagued local media in Sri Lanka has now culminated in mischievous infringement into the freedom of global media," Tamilnet.com said.

    The government owns just under 50 percent of Sri Lanka Telecom, which is run by NTT of Japan.

    The Sri Lanka-based FMM said it was "deeply disturbed" over what it said was yet another attack on media freedom.

    "This is a significant turn in the erosion of media freedom in Sri Lanka and clearly demonstrates the extent to which media is censored," the media group said in a statement.

    Some Internet service providers, who have their main offices abroad, still allow access to the website, which is an influential source of Tamil views on the island's separatist conflict that has claimed more than 60,000 lives in 35 years.

    The censorship move also coincides with a visit to Sri Lanka by a group of international media rights activists investigating widespread reports of increased attacks on and intimidation of the local media.


    Wonderful...
     

    funnyguy

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    I think this is probably a temporary DNS issue rather than a block.. if it was they would have blocked the server IP which would knock off all access to the site no matter the domain name.

    And there are things called server sides proxy's. I'd think Sri Lankan's a smart enough to understand that unless you block the entire internet you can't block a site :P it takes like 30 sec's of PHP scripting to make a server side proxy :P
     
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