(USA) FCC main website blocks Tor users (but complaints site is open to all)

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(USA) FCC main website blocks Tor users (but complaints site is open to all)

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evenwicht@lemmy.sdf.orgM to Public resource but access restricted and exclusive@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 days ago

The main landing site for the FCC blocks Tor users with a 403. This means their contact page is also exclusive access, along with a number of otherwise pubilc access databases.

At least their consumer complaints site open to all, including those with a privacy complaint:

https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us

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This community tracks restricted access resources (generally websites) that are supposed to serve taxpayers and the general public, but they fail in that duty by imposing arbitrary restrictions on access. This is where we document these cases.

Most often, it is the Tor community who is marginalised by incompetantly implemented infosystems. This community will be mostly littered with references to tor-hostile public resources to a fatiquing extent, but this is expected. It is not necessarily limited to Tor. Any demographic of people who are refused service would have a relevant story here. E.g. someone traveling outside their country and being denied access to a homeland website on the basis of presumed IP geolocation.

This is very closely related to the [email protected] community. But there are some nuanced differences. Not all fiefdoms are necessarily always restricted access. E.g. some rare Facebook pages are reachable to non-FB users.

And not all manifestations of restricted access entail a fiefdom. E.g. it’s increasingly common for a gov website to block Tor visitors at the firewall without involving a digital fiefdom.

Cases of Cloudflare, Facebook, LinkedIn and the like can be crossposted in many situations. They are a fiefdom walled garden and also commonly configured to restrict access. IDK… use your best judgement. Might suffice to just post in [email protected] in those cases.

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