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Tamilnet banned? - How to continue to access the site from Sri Lanka

June 19, 2007 at 9:59 pm · Categories: Colombo, English, Media, Peace and Conflict | by groundviews

Tamilnet

Reports received by Groundviews indicate that Tamilnet is inaccessible from many major Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Sri Lanka. At the time of writing, the site is confirmed to be inaccessible from:

SLT (ADSL and dial-up)
Lankacom (leased line)
Lankabell (dial-up)
Suntel (dial-up)

Only Tamilnet seems to be affected.

There is a workaround. Click here to access all the content on the site through Google. It’s not pretty, but all the content is there.

We will be keeping tabs on this issue and post information and updates as we receive them.

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Gangrene said,

June 19, 2007 @ 11:14 pm

I dunno it maybe possible to access it using the IP of the server. That is assuming that it has been blocked off on the DNS lookup.
Anyone knows the Tanilnet IP?

Prefernot2exist said,

June 20, 2007 @ 8:41 am

Guys - there is a much cleaner way to do it - use an anonymous proxy server. Google ‘free proxy list’, go to a site, read the FAQ and choose a server….it might take a few tries.

You enter the IP and the port number in your ‘connection’ or ‘LAN’ tab in your web browser. Works like a charm for me.

Happy reading. Information is free.

Tamilnet accessible from Sri Lanka once again « ICT for Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace) said,

December 19, 2007 @ 6:19 pm

[...] Though the site was accessible throughÂ web proxy and other means, the decision to unblock it seems asÂ arbitraryÂ as the decision to close off access to it in the first place. Â Â Posted by Sanjana Hattotuwa Filed in ICT in general Tags: Censorship, Freedom of Expression, Media Freedom, Tamilnet [...]

ICT4Peace in 2007: Significant work, applied research and challenges « ICT for Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace) said,

December 31, 2007 @ 7:19 pm

[...] Over the course of the year, Groundviews took on the malpractices of traditional media, web censorship, compelling perspectives of life in the midst of conflict, legal and political analyses, articles that critically analysed disaster response mechanisms and frameworks, issues such as the case of Rizana in Saudi Arabia that were largely ignored, at the time, in traditional media and on a number of occasions had to deal with the challenges posed by trolls and other miscreants. [...]

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