*update, I have had no new notices of blocks in Australia, with many reporting no issues now, but please keep use.opendns.com bookmarked if this happens again, original article below.*
Today I had a couple of reports that this site was not accessible in Australia. They started in early morning, so I suspect that something happened overnight. We know that the majority of internet service providers in both Australia and New Zealand had started a month ago, described here at privateinternetaccess.com as “ISPs in AU and NZ start censoring the internet without legal precedent”.
Initially it was only sites that had hosted the shootings in Christchurch, and was reported to be only temporary.
In New Zealand, mobile internet service providers take it upon themselves to enact censorship
Starting over the weekend, Spark NZ, Vodafone NZ, and Vocus NZ were the three New Zealand ISPs that have taken it upon themselves to block these sites. On their part, the ISPs and smartphone network providers are claiming that these are only temporary blocks. Temporary blocks that have lasted multiple days – more than long enough to change people’s’ browsing habits. Even the perpetrators of this censorship are aware how unprecedented it is. Geoff Thorn, a chief executive at New Zealand Telecommunications Forum (TCF), commented to CIO:
This site and none of it’s authors have ever advocated violence as a solution, and commenters that do are actively removed, and it was never even suggested that the site host or link to the footage of the shooting.
They lied, they expanded the censorship and it’s no longer looking temporary. Only a couple of days ago the Daily Mail quantified the damage that Google is doing with their biased algorithm here. It’s a death by a thousand cuts, and they get deeper with every slash.
So that’s where we are today, Jihad Watch has again become a victim of fascist censorship, a whole continent blocked from hearing any opposing views of Islam or discussion of jihad. The narrative will be in the hands of big tech and those in power.
The blocking method they have used is very low tech, and thankfully for now easily bypassed. Ten years ago I was sharing this link with dissidents in Iran and family in Turkey. use.opendns.com or if that’s blocked just these numbers in a browser 208.69.38.205 provides instructions on how to bypass this method of censorship. Keep them handy, the free internet is getting much smaller at a faster pace, so you never know when you might need them. This is often the first method that fascist regimes use to censor the internet. Once they get comfortable with it, such as China, North Korea and Iran, they have more aggressive censorship methods, but that takes time to deploy.
Jihad Watch actually always has, or I should say had, quite a large viewership in Australia. They were very active here as commenters. I get to see the new guys’ comments get caught in our moderation system when I check them each morning (there’s a 12 hour time difference).
Hopefully those that have access can spread the word on how to bypass those blocks, a VPN will also work, and has the benefit of always bypassing censorship and ensuring privacy, VladTepes discusses that here as he had similar reports from his visitors.
2 years ago we found that many ISPs in the UK and a few in the rest of Europe were doing the same. I offered this advice then.
I am very disappointed with EFF, an organisation describing themselves as “The leading nonprofit defending digital privacy, free speech, and innovation.”, although acknowledge and are aware of the scale of this misuse of power, only describing the following as “The Ugly”…
The Call asks companies to take “transparent, specific measures” to prevent the upload of terrorist and violent extremist content and prevent its dissemination “in a manner consistent with human rights and fundamental freedoms.” But as numerous civil society organizations pointed out in the May 14 meeting, upload filters are inherently inconsistent with fundamental freedoms. Moreover, driving content underground may do little to prevent attacks and can even impede efforts to do so by making the perpetrators more difficult to identify.
We also have grave concerns about how “terrorism” and “violent extremism” are defined, by whom. Companies regularly use blunt measures to determine what constitutes terrorism, while a variety of governments—including Call signatories Jordan and Spain—have used anti-terror measures to silence speech.
It must be obvious that sites such as Jihadwatch.org are not even close to “terrorist and violent extremist content”. It’s just news and discussion, mostly sourced from mainstream media or regional news. What are EFF scared of ? they won’t cite an example, and there are many. Is free speech only protected for those they agree with now?
CRUSADER says
It’d been historical understanding that Australia had once fought AGAINST fascism!!
Australian authoritarian tendencies are frightful!!!
One of the Five Eyes has a black eye !
Ross Lloyd says
Nuh, still working for me in Canberra. No reason why it shouldn’t be. Good news tonight The Liberal / National Party Coalition (Conservatives) defeated the leftist Labor / Green parties in the Australian Federal Election! Australia saved from the “Weather Warriors”!
Ashley says
Thanks, Ross! That is heartening to hear!
Ross Lloyd says
No worries mate. A night for celebration! 🙂
CRUSADER says
So… N-Z might be a “No-go Zone”,
but Australia may soon have its bollocks back?
gravenimage says
Good to hear on both counts, Ross!
marc says
It’s not all, I hear 2 bigger ISPs for now, keep that use.opendns.com handy though.
But that is great news, I hope canada will follow your lead in a few months.
Brian hoff says
At least the racist islamoprobic Australia First Party didnot gain power. Hitler have the germany Parliament builting burn down with the willing help of than Dutch commie. The nazie lost the election which took place they still the largest party they lost between 10 and 20 seat Goring lie when he reported the result over the radio.
Ecosse1314 says
That’s great. In your native country it is probably quite interesting. If you could now translate it into english Mr F hoff.
gravenimage says
Grimly, “Brian hoff”–really, “DefenderofIslam”–claims that his native country is the United States. I have no idea if this is true–but if so, then there is even less excuse for his not being about to speak the language.
CRUSADER says
“Mr F hoff” — that’s funny! Got a big chuckle over that.
(translation:)
*Mq P tukk* ~ dusht gobbe? Cle v hldssre mnws dush ,
Paul says
Never had an issue here either (SE QLD). Works every time. And so it should.
Jule Bacal says
That’s good. To censoring warnings and factual info from people will not stop terrorism at all.
Ashley says
This isn’t good.
I’m no tech guru, but I’m holding out hope this is just a glitch.
But if marc says that this is no glitch, I’m crestfallen.
revereridesagain says
When I get that message about a site it usually does mean either a glitch or my FireFox/Norton diabolical duo is pranking me again, so I go look up whatever it is on Chrome. Meanwhile I will be keeping those links handy in case Australia has indeed decided to revert to the dark ages.
Necrophage says
Are you really still using Firefox? They are firmly on the censorship bandwagon. I would suggest switching to Brave, though there are other free speech browsers out there.
GROO the Wonderer says
+1, I would also recommend Brave (at least for now)…
LadyTess says
Duck Duck go
Ross Lloyd says
Just a glitch, it’s working fine in Canberra!
tt says
And in Western Australia too
gravenimage says
Good, tt.
dumbledoresarmy says
Fine for me. I’ve just lobbed in from Australia, waay too late in the small hours, when I ought to be in bed, and I opened it up just fine and am reading and commenting.
marc says
Can you see https://www.blazingcatfur.ca/ also?
CRUSADER says
??? Who We Are at “Blazing Cat Fur” :
(One day we’ll write something real noble sounding here.)
HA! HA! HA! HA!
gravenimage says
CRUSADER, despite the silly name, Blazing Cat Fur (I don’t know the origin of the site’s name) is actually a very good blog.
CRUSADER says
(Just quoting from one of its pages…..)
gravenimage says
Yes, CRUSADER–I know. 🙂
gravenimage says
*So* glad to hear this, DDA.
Benedict says
“what are EFF scared of”(?)
Could islamophobia maybe, perhaps, eventually if other explanations fail provide a possible explanation?
na says
Many of the people are not aware of these kind of counter jihad web sites against – conspiracies, fascism, islamization, terrorism, Nazism, monopoly of other fabricated news channel like “Al Jzeera, TRT, Press TV”.
You need more sharing with other news channels as a niche channel to refer terrorism, and should conduct seminars among societies , institution, govt organizations etc. Pamela Geller is also a good counter jihad expert.That site has a good appearance.Modern. You should have different topics/advice to solve terrorism as an example “how to prevent hacking? some tips” etc. This is also one of the very rare sites about counter terrorism.
william rodgers says
Let’s all remember muhammadans are an extreme Pagan Cult who fought with the Nazi’s in WWII. Never trust them, never believe anything they say. All practice taqayya meaning their tribal cult believes it is an honor to lie and make fools of Western people [ Infidels to them.]
CRUSADER says
Wow, Na.
That was rather useful and helpful.
Of course, cross referencing sites which concentrate on
Counter Jihad efforts is important to be doing….
Remember that it isn’t terrorism so much we need to fight
but SHARIAH which inspires it….
na says
Now a days counter terrorism is an essential thing like food, water, shelter, cloth. Fox news has a category terrorism .
william rodgers says
It is unfortunate that the world is quickly shrinking for Christians and Jews. All this is predicted in Scripture, but it is accelerating faster than I expected. The false flag killings at a mosque in New Zealand follow the pattern of terror against their own people in order to exact sympathy, and move their Jihad further into Western nations.. Can’t believe the Aussies were dumb enough to fall for that one. Now New Zealand and Australia are in play by the global jihad. OF course, the US too is being infiltrated [ even have 2 in congress] All over the globe the muhammadans are using muhammads’ classic Hijrah : Invasion by migration to expand and conquer. There are two ways to stop them. One, shut the gates and do not allow any muslims to enter your country, or do what the Spanish did. They were slowly taken over starting in 711, and subjugated all th Christians and Jews in Spain. Finally by the 1400’s the Spanish expelled them by force, and witht he backing of the Catholic Inqusition. By 1502 they made islam illegal in Spain. Responding to the latest muhammadan invasion Spain in Jan 2015 passed a law banning any muhammadan from North Africa even if they are pasing through to other EU countries. THe EU Migration Control [ who have put themselves in charge of world wide migration control said Spain was at risk of losing their Asylum status, but the Spanish held, and so far are one of about 9 of the 22 EU nations who are prttecting themselves from the muhammadan Hijrah conducted against the EU. Their goal is to destroy all Western Culture and ethnic nations and replace them with the Pagan Tribal Barbaric practices of the Cult of muhammad. They are doing the same in the US, but so far the US is the strongest nation standing. Our weakness is the capitulation to the argument that this pagan godless cult of barbarians are a legitimate religion when in fact they are a Militarized Theocracy who have one goal: Subjugation to all peoples of the world to the Pagan muhammadan system of submission. The entire globe must stop this cancer. As it stands now more amd more natons as we see inthis article are bowing down to the muhammadans bringing the world closer to the final conflict where the only option left for the Lord Jesus is to wipe this evil cult from the face of the earth.
CRUSADER says
We know not what God’s time is —
A thief in the night…..
Bless you, william rodgers!
+ + +
gravenimage says
I have my issues with the New Zealand government and their silly Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, but no–the NZ government is *not* mass murdering people at mosques. What claptrap.
Halal Bacon says
yet they couldn’t shut down isis sites…yah, whatever fuckers
CRUSADER says
Thanks for the reminder, halal bacon.
I am now hungry for a BLT.
freedom says
Ah, yes ……. a Bin Laden Taco
CRUSADER says
Served up
thin and crispy !
(a quite a bit soggy….)
jas says
that’s too bad jihadwatch got censored. i mean they censor me. what can you do?
gravenimage says
What? Why did jas get censored–assuming this happened? Certainly, jas is not banned, or he would not be able to post here now.
Generally someone is only censored here if they are preaching violence or threatening other posters.
So is this what jas has been up to? Pretty ugly if this is the case.
PRODOS says
I’m in Australia and CAN currently access JihadWatch.org without any problems.
gravenimage says
+1
Georg says
The “temporary” canard seems similar in kind/intent to the “mistake[s]” that social media like Twitter and Facebook make so often regarding censorship of non-marxist, and especially anti-marxist, content. It is likely strategically employed as a psychological anesthetic making future censorship less impactful on the sensibilities of users and wider public. “Gaslighting,” “psyops,” or propaganda–whatever one calls it–this is one the elites are employing against citizenry.
CRUSADER says
Georg,
So….what is there to do ?
Georg says
We need legislation (and enforcement) outlining what is and is not lawful regarding their censorship. Reporting to the Trump Admin.’s site would be very helpful as they are likely trying to compile an account of what is going on to inform future efforts against the censorship.
Aside from the gaslighting mentioned above, there is also the practical difficulty these organizations have in coordinating perfectly across individual censors. So, some employees go a bit too far while there are some who don’t go far enough in the company’s eyes. But what’s important is that they are involved in an effort toward Marxism and without laws there are no goal posts to measure against over time.
emergency cake says
…working in Western Australia!!
CRUSADER says
Asking Muslims If We Can Criticize Islam – Sydney, Australia with Armin Navabi
(Armin Navabi – Director of Media at Pangburn Philosophy – goes to Lakemba in Sydney, Australia to ask Muslims if it’s okay to criticize Islam.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TvsaOC3v38
gravenimage says
Very enlightening–especially where the one pious Muslim says that the interviewer does indeed had a choice under Shari’ah–Islam or death. *Ugh*.
Armin Navabi is a *very* brave man.
I think he is a bit too optimistic about Islam, though. Most of these Muslims still think that apostates from Islam deserve to be killed.
ntesdorf says
Using Google with Westnet Internet Service Provider still gives access to Jihad Watch and all the other similar Siutes like Acts 17, Apostate Prophet, etc.
Mike says
can we get someone e-mail address and back door it that way?
Lydia Church says
This may have been temporary, but not accidental.
The walls are closing in. Or you could call it the ‘wedge’ strategy… little by little.
People always are optimistic and think all of this will just ‘go away’ and goodness and justice will prevail. That would be nice. But the day is too far gone.
Next time it will be down longer. It’s also like testing the sleeping giant. They poke him a few times. When he doesn’t budge they know they are safe and they tie him up with ropes. Then, when he does wake up… and tries to move, alas… it is too late. In some cases they look for reactions when people still have some form of power. In this case, they really don’t have much at all. But if they move slowly, many won’t notice what is happening and that’s another reason for it. That’s the frog in the boiling water approach. He becomes frog stew before he realizes the water is too hot for him and never jumps out. They move slowly at first, so as not to alarm the victim. When they have enough power and control and all of a sudden they move quickly.
Little by little it also happened with each tyranny. Censorship of the truth. They used to get underground news during WWII as well, which the powers that be on the wrong side would have dubbed ‘fake news’. Just know it’s coming. Don’t count on all these sites being accessible for too much longer.
GET THE CONTACT INFO. FROM THEM ALL, EMAIL, PHONE, PO BOX, ETC. while you still can, and I recommend we all do that. Write it on a paper and keep it in a safe place.
When news sources disappear, it is tempting to lull off to sleep in an ‘all is well’ mindset. Don’t do that.
That only means the tyranny is getting more powerful. There will be lots of bad news in the days ahead, and we won’t hear about it all. But the battle continues.
What can we do then?
1. Figure that the current trends will continue and even advance. Be on guard. Act accordingly.
2. Be prepared for more walls to close in, which usually happens once freedom of speech disappears.
3. Remain steadfast in the Christian faith regardless of what comes.
4. Be prepared for increasing persecution.
5. Jesus said to ‘watch and pray.’
6. Warn others of what is going on, keep the information flowing and the conversation going.
7. Try to get a community for discussion, like the contacts of these websites, like minded believers, etc.
Stay strong!
RonaldB says
The ultimate censorship: ICANN was given control of internet access by the post-America President, Obama. Access to the internet is no longer guaranteed by any US agency, which would be operating under the 1st amendment.
ICANN will eventually fall to the globalists and the Islamists, and then any anti-Muslim or pro-nationalist website will simply not be allowed an address.
gary@erko says
It hasn’t failed for my daily reading in Sydney.
marc says
@gary and anyone else. Yes, I’ve seen a few people post from Oz who have not had issues, but I have not heard from anyone who said they were temporarily blocked previously, except the 3 cases i had in email and skype, changing DNS fixed it for them,
Ren says
I hope Aussies and the citizens of NZ will react to this “illegal” censorship or their freedom will be doomed.
Paul says
TOR browser cures all such evils.
CRUSADER says
“The Enemies Within” by Trevor Loudon of New Zealand
(communists, socialists, progressives)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJGNocvfU44
gravenimage says
Australia switches off jihadwatch.org
………………..
This is *deeply* disturbing.
And after this good news:
“Australia: tough on jihad Scott Morrison wins big in re-election, ‘shocks’ media and pollsters”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/05/australia-tough-on-jihad-scott-morrison-wins-big-in-re-election-shocks-media-and-pollsters
Grace du Prie says
No problem when I tried it this morning in Ipswich, Australia. Clear!
Yohanan says
Censorship of counter-jihad is preceded by misinformation. Legitimate criticism of historical and current jihadi Islamism (violent, terroristic, supremacist political Islam) is labelled hate groups, conspiracies and islamophobic…
Compare these correct and incorrect first sentences of their entries on Jihad Watch –
* en-wiki: “Jihad Watch is an anti-Muslim conspiracy blog.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jihad_Watch
* Sourcewatch (Center for Media and Democracy’s PR Watch): “Jihad Watch is an anti-Islamist website and blog.” https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jihad_Watch
As Marc has pointed out – None of JW’s authors endorse hatred of Muslims. Commentators promoting violence on Jihad Watch’s open forum are removed.
Unfortunately wiki’s ideal of a neutral point of view (NPOV) is lost also because of biased oversight higher-up editors…
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Theo says
Australians, just use a VPN then you can access the site.
Mike Hemingway says
I’ve had no problems here in Australia. None at all.
Terra Nova says
Orwell: THE FURTHER a society drifts away from truth, the more it will hate those, that speak it.
As Winston Churchill said in “The gathering storm in1948: “Mein kampf was the new Koran”
“Darkest hour” Churchill foresaw it all. We in the West have through this before , and we will rise again, when lams become lions”
simpleton1 says
I did have a glitch on another post, about 24 hours a go when I put a comment with just one link to youtube.
I refreshed a number of times, then thought that some how it had disappeared or gone to moderation.
It popped up about 5-10 minutes later, when I came back and checked.
So just a glitch? a mild hold over? or just a “trying of the arm”?
WordPress has shut down some blogs.
https://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/
Chateau Heartiste blog was also removed
Youtube have also hit others channels out.
Steven says
Just let ye know mate, I’m Aussie and I have no problem with access to your website here.
eloivsdiablo says
At home no worries but public WiFi many sites are blocked…
Reziac says
If you need to check whether a site is down for everyone or just for you, go here:
https://status.ws/
You can also browse the most recent queries and where they’re from, which may produce a better picture of what’s going on. Sometimes these things are censorship; sometimes they’re regional outages; sometimes they’re a blackhole list that desperately needs to be updated, if not killed outright.
Dawne says
In the UK when I changed my internet service provider from Virgin to Sky, Jihadwatch and other sites I browse wouldn’t come up. Several angry phone calls to Sky by me followed and they finally agreed to “switch off” their filtering for objectionable sites (as they put it).
Anyone who can’t access sites, phone your provider and COMPLAIN. I threatened to take away my custom and this seemed to do the trick. I still can’t access on my mobile phone, but don’t really use that for browsing anyway. However, when I get time I’m going to phone EE my provider and give them hell. Then if they won’t sort, I’ll change.
Censorship and Fascism is getting worse.
Craig says
Luckily (for now) I’m ready this in Aus. Haven’t been able to read blazingcatfur.ca since Christchurch.
FYI says
Switching off JW facilitates islam:the religion of antiChrist…..
All over the world the antiChrist cult of islam,aided by the Leftists,the Globalists and the treasonous political elites rears its ugly head.
Why else is islam being promoted above ALL other religions?Because it is antiChrist.
UNCLE VLADDI says
Marc, corporate ad-blockers are being deliberately programmed to deem legitimate Conservative news sites like Jihad Watch and WND as “CLICKBAIT:” https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/jihad-watch-deemed-clickbait-vlad-basarab/
marc says
Thank you UNCLE VLADDI 🙁 another one of those products I’ve recommended in the past turns against me.