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[{"user_id": 7110, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11524, "date_created": 1299609267.4866619, "message": "I run a photography site called Aminus3 (http://aminus3.com) - it looks like our images (stored on S3) are being blocked by Iranian Goverment. Unfortunately - we have a large user base of Iranian photobloggers who are not so happy about this. Any ideas on what we can do?", "group_id": 95, "id": 298260}, {"user_id": 779, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11524, "date_created": 1299613504.023118, "message": "Anything you have already tried? (tor services etc)", "group_id": 95, "id": 298845}, {"user_id": 7110, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11524, "date_created": 1299619044.544452, "message": "have not tried anything yet - on the user side - I'm sure any proxy/VPN solution that gets the user out of the Iranian IP space would bypass the block. I guess my idea for a discussion is more about from a server perpective, what options are there to ensure users can view your site/content?", "group_id": 95, "id": 299603}, {"user_id": 11864, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11524, "date_created": 1299620600.0882809, "message": "http://einmachglas.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/zensursula_seite_09.png", "group_id": 95, "id": 299767}, {"user_id": 5939, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11524, "date_created": 1299622012.0684559, "message": "Post instructions on how to defeat censor-walls. Everyone should know how!", "group_id": 95, "id": 300020}, {"user_id": 12510, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11524, "date_created": 1299628693.7883351, "message": "Sorry to state the obvious but you would have to host your images on ips that are not blocked. Perhaps for those users you could have a secondary store that would be active for them. Nice site btw.", "group_id": 95, "id": 300593}, {"user_id": 19716, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11524, "date_created": 1299629553.509686, "message": "The only way that I can see a site being unable to be blocked is if it was only an IP or a user / self-hosted site", "group_id": 95, "id": 300660}, {"user_id": 15438, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11524, "date_created": 1299633171.503314, "message": "Agreed", "group_id": 95, "id": 300867}, {"user_id": 8668, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11524, "date_created": 1299661756.0239799, "message": "Is it specifically your site being blocked or have they done something silly like block all of S3?", "group_id": 95, "id": 302851}, {"user_id": 7110, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11524, "date_created": 1299662633.2148819, "message": "true - certainly an option", "group_id": 95, "id": 302927}, {"user_id": 7110, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11524, "date_created": 1299662642.5132971, "message": "could work as well", "group_id": 95, "id": 302928}, {"user_id": 7110, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11524, "date_created": 1299662706.685282, "message": "we are a photo community and some photographers post nudes... this has been the case for the last 5 years and we've not been censored", "group_id": 95, "id": 302938}, {"user_id": 7110, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11524, "date_created": 1299662728.828681, "message": "might be a good solution", "group_id": 95, "id": 302942}, {"user_id": 7110, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11524, "date_created": 1299662818.282757, "message": "maybe better to educate our users on proxies !", "group_id": 95, "id": 302957}, {"user_id": 8668, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11524, "date_created": 1299661724.3617771, "message": "(previous solution also depends on how they are blocking, if it's DNS level for example that won't work)", "group_id": 95, "id": 302846}, {"user_id": 8668, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11524, "date_created": 1299661710.2896049, "message": "You could make yourself a moving target... keep moving IPs etc, make it hard for them to know who to block. This might piss them off though - if you become the premier site for users wanting to bitch about their government, that might increase the risk of using your site", "group_id": 95, "id": 302845}, {"user_id": 7110, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11524, "date_created": 1299662377.2610509, "message": "they are not blocking our main site - only our images (I suspect because we allow nude content) - we host our images in an S3 bucket and I figure they are blocking the bucket address (aka http://aminus3.s3.amazonaws.com/) -- one answer is to change our bucket name although that would be a huge PITA due to external links", "group_id": 95, "id": 302900}, {"user_id": 7110, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11524, "date_created": 1299662596.4360731, "message": "@ZoFreX just saw your S3 question... I can't imagine they blocked all of S3 but I envision them keeping an S3 block list perhaps that they just keep adding buckets to", "group_id": 95, "id": 302923}, {"user_id": 7110, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11524, "date_created": 1299662781.6185889, "message": "yeah - that is for sure !", "group_id": 95, "id": 302951}, {"user_id": 7110, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11524, "date_created": 1299662807.341135, "message": "its seems to be a sad trend gaining momentum (govt blocking web)", "group_id": 95, "id": 302956}, {"user_id": 7110, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11524, "date_created": 1299662792.5545139, "message": "I'm just curious here on convore if any web devs have experienced this yet", "group_id": 95, "id": 302952}, {"user_id": 8668, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11524, "date_created": 1299662631.0541711, "message": "or to get a new one for the site but leave the old address up for links", "group_id": 95, "id": 302926}, {"user_id": 8668, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11524, "date_created": 1299662654.5642591, "message": "if you can have a totally custom URL for the bucket you might wanna consider that, makes it easier to move around", "group_id": 95, "id": 302929}, {"user_id": 8668, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11524, "date_created": 1299662667.8797641, "message": "as for the blocking... do you need nude content?", "group_id": 95, "id": 302932}, {"user_id": 8668, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11524, "date_created": 1299662706.5392129, "message": "if that's why it's getting blocked then I would consider changing the policy, or splitting the hosting so nude images go on one bucket, everything else on another... or even splitting the site, fork a new version that's less likely to get blocked", "group_id": 95, "id": 302937}, {"user_id": 8668, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11524, "date_created": 1299662736.8361599, "message": "might work. it's all guesswork, really", "group_id": 95, "id": 302944}, {"user_id": 8668, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11524, "date_created": 1299662713.495811, "message": "ah I see", "group_id": 95, "id": 302939}, {"user_id": 8668, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11524, "date_created": 1299662617.1882851, "message": "perhaps... is it possible to throw a 301 redirect on the old bucket address if you move?", "group_id": 95, "id": 302924}, {"user_id": 7110, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11524, "date_created": 1299662724.6601441, "message": "yeah - I was thinking that though - we do have an \"adult\" flag so we could move those images to other bucket", "group_id": 95, "id": 302940}, {"user_id": 8668, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11524, "date_created": 1299662775.4656949, "message": "just... be careful, these people don't fuck around :P", "group_id": 95, "id": 302950}, {"user_id": 8668, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11524, "date_created": 1299662755.3092401, "message": "if you can work out what level you're being blocked at that might help if you do want to start actively evading", "group_id": 95, "id": 302946}, {"user_id": 7110, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11524, "date_created": 1299662757.290664, "message": "yeah - its hard to say for sure also what is fully being blocked and where", "group_id": 95, "id": 302947}, {"user_id": 7110, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11524, "date_created": 1299662763.3915851, "message": "yup very true", "group_id": 95, "id": 302948}, {"user_id": 8668, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11524, "date_created": 1299664286.686065, "message": "Which was accomplished by rotating the physical location of the server, and handing out pieces of paper with the new IP address on", "group_id": 95, "id": 303176}, {"user_id": 8668, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11524, "date_created": 1299664252.8808529, "message": "I have some experience with evading blocking, but that was a service on a LAN not a WAN", "group_id": 95, "id": 303169}, {"user_id": 7110, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11524, "date_created": 1299696275.505518, "message": "@ZoFreX - that's one way to approach it :)", "group_id": 95, "id": 307413}]