UK & EUROPEAN INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS NOW BLOCKING “JIHAD WATCH”~HOW YOU CAN COMBAT ONLINE CENSORSHIP

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

This is not new. It has been ongoing for years: when fascists are
unable to control the narrative, they shut down the discussion.

I
am seeing now that most of the UK and many other European Internet
service providers (ISPs) are blocking this as well as many other
websites from being viewed.

Not content with shadow banning academics guilty of wrongspeak from social media, attempting to turn them into unpersons, they
are using blocking methods originally developed but rarely used to
block criminal enterprises on the web (think scammers and pedophiles)
with far more alacrity than when they were ever used as originally
intended.

They use a variety of methods to control what you are allowed to view
online, much like how I had “guardian control” on our television to
stop the kids from watching channels that were not suitable. Amusingly, I
know of one home and office firewall company that is listing
jihadwatch.org as “adult entertainment.” A provider in the UK, also
listing Jihad Watch as adult, asks for credit card numbers to prove you
are old enough to view the site.

Canada is introducing “measures,” specifically in Quebec, to block illegal gaming sites,
which I would bet my last Loony on being leveraged in the same way, as
soon as they criminalize “Islamophobia,” a.k.a. any criticism of jihad
and the violence and crime that go hand-in-hand with Islam.

So today, some Internet providers just block this and other sites,
giving the impression that site is “down,” not available, mockingly
suggesting, “please try later.” We will be seeing far more of this, and
there is little anyone can do to stop this from being implemented
further.

The vast majority of blocks are actually very simple to bypass. They
“poison” the DNS servers that they provide free with your Internet
access to misdirect you to other locations. The Turkish government has
been using this method for Internet access for a few years. The Chinese
“protect” nearly half the world’s population from ThoughtCrime with this
trick.

Bypassing the simple DNS poisoning method that is most commonly used
is very simple: you just change the DNS servers that Cisco, the worldwide leader in IT and networking hardware, was kind enough to provide. Try use.opendns.com or safer for sharing 208.69.38.205 (which
cannot be easily blocked). In fact, in many cases, OpenDNS may be a
better service than your own service provider’s DNS. It is simply
tested, but whatever happens in the future, keep that link handy to
check if your favorite websites really did just vanish.

Further, I would strongly suggest that anyone who may in the future
be guilty of wrongthink or some other thoughtcrime, go one step further
and encrypt all your Internet traffic using a VPN (Virtual Private
Network), so that Internet providers, government agencies and even
employers can not snoop. I have been involved with the development of airvpn.
I have no financial motive, but I believe they are the best
(speed/price), but maybe not as user-friendly as some more commercial
VPNs such as Freedome.
Using a VPN would be best practice to also stop cyber criminals from
carrying out a number of attacks against you when you are using a public
wifi (cafe, airport, etc.). It also is a more thorough way to block
censorship. If you use a VPN, you do not need to change DNS servers, as
the VPN does this for you.

*above, I knowingly use the term “dns poisoning” knowing that it is
most commonly used to describe an attack when a bad actor diverts a
website’s intended  traffic to some other location, normally to inflict
some damage, but the ISPs are using similar methods that a Bad Actor
would use with the intent of censorship.