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Dear Magi, <br>
<br>
I have experienced similar situation in June, 1991 in Slovenian
during the process of independence.<br>
All was very bad, the Yugoslav Army has rocketed the main
communication nodes at the mountain<br>
Krvavec that connected our IXI line (where IP was encapsulated)
to Vienna IXI node. So, the Internet<br>
(and X.400 services out of the country) was not available for
more than 24 hours.<br>
<br>
Thanks to experienced experts that went the very some day to the
mountain the line was set up after 24 hours. <br>
As a responsible person for this line I got a phone call from
IXI management centre in Hague that our line is<br>
not working. They asked "Are fighting there?" and of course my
answer was not yet.<br>
<br>
This line become the most powerful communication line for
Slovenian government in informing the free world<br>
what is happening in Slovenia that days. We all (academics) sent
thousand of mails to our colleagues in USA, so<br>
the truth and the real situation come out very soon.
Communication is very powerful tool to send information and<br>
politics know that, that is why they block first the
communication. The same happened in Egipt.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Borka<br>
<br>
Magí Lluch-Ariet je 26.9.2017 ob 10:31 napisal:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:x-small">Thanks
Borka for your message.<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:x-small">A couple of
news explaining the censorship facts by Fundació .cat can be
found here: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://fundacio.cat/en/news" target="_blank">http://fundacio.cat/en/news</a><br>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:x-small">The <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.internetsociety.org/news/statements/2017/internet-society-statement-internet-blocking-measures-catalonia-spain/"
target="_blank">statement from ISOC Europe</a>.<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:x-small">Statement
at <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://change.org"
target="_blank">change.org</a> from the official IT
Societies with signatures request: <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.change.org/p/condemnation-of-spanish-government-actuations-on-1-o-and-protection-to-ict-professionists?utm_source=embedded_petition_view"
target="_blank">https://www.change.org/p/conde<wbr>mnation-of-spanish-government-<wbr>actuations-on-1-o-and-<wbr>protection-to-ict-professionis<wbr>ts?utm_source=embedded_<wbr>petition_view</a>
<br>
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A local news agency: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.catalannews.com/" target="_blank">http://www.catalannews.com/</a><br>
Local newspapers: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://english.vilaweb.cat/" target="_blank">https://english.vilaweb.cat/</a>
and <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.ara.cat/en/"
target="_blank">http://www.ara.cat/en/</a> <br>
<br>
Some international supports about the referendum<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.letcatalansvote.org/en" target="_blank">http://www.letcatalansvote.org<wbr>/en</a>
<br>
<br>
These are the sites blocked when accessed from Catalonia or
for those under .cat with their content replaced by a policy
note:<br>
<br>
<div dir="auto"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.referendum.cat" target="_blank">www.referendum.cat</a> </div>
<div dir="auto"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.ref1oct.eu" target="_blank">www.ref1oct.eu</a></div>
<div dir="auto"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://gateway.ipfs.io/ipfs/QmQZzfs7LjkEnmG3zU92YF7ViCcuCXkNokuYoiNe6pKvDZ/"
target="_blank">https://gateway.ipfs.io/ipfs/Q<wbr>mQZzfs7LjkEnmG3zU92YF7ViCcuCXk<wbr>NokuYoiNe6pKvDZ/</a></div>
<div dir="auto"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://cat.referendum.barcelona/" target="_blank">https://cat.referendum.barcelo<wbr>na/</a></div>
<div dir="auto"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://referendum.enricpineda.cat/" target="_blank">http://referendum.enricpineda.<wbr>cat/</a></div>
<div dir="auto"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.referendum.party/" target="_blank">http://www.referendum.party/</a></div>
<div dir="auto"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.referendum.ninja/" target="_blank">http://www.referendum.ninja/</a></div>
<div dir="auto"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.referendum.love/" target="_blank">http://www.referendum.love/</a></div>
<div dir="auto"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.referendum.legal/" target="_blank">http://www.referendum.legal/</a></div>
<div dir="auto"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.referendum.fyi/" target="_blank">http://www.referendum.fyi/</a></div>
<div dir="auto"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.referendum.rip/" target="_blank">http://www.referendum.rip/</a></div>
<div dir="auto"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.referendum.soy/" target="_blank">http://www.referendum.soy/</a></div>
<div dir="auto"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.referendum.lol/" target="_blank">http://www.referendum.lol/</a></div>
<div dir="auto"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.referendum.voto/" target="_blank">http://www.referendum.voto/</a></div>
<div dir="auto"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.referendum.works/" target="_blank">http://www.referendum.works/</a></div>
<div dir="auto"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.referendum.observer/" target="_blank">http://www.referendum.observer<wbr>/</a></div>
<div dir="auto"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.referendum.fun/" target="_blank">http://www.referendum.fun/</a></div>
<div dir="auto"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.referendum.pro/" target="_blank">http://www.referendum.pro/</a></div>
<div dir="auto"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://alerta.cat/www.referendum.cat/"
target="_blank">http://alerta.cat/www.referend<wbr>um.cat/</a></div>
<div dir="auto"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://referendum.pirata.cat" target="_blank">http://referendum.pirata.cat</a></div>
<div dir="auto"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://referendum.pau.fm/" target="_blank">http://referendum.pau.fm/</a></div>
<div dir="auto"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.referendumcat.eu/" target="_blank">http://www.referendumcat.eu/</a></div>
<div dir="auto"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://nigeon.github.io/referendum.cat/"
target="_blank">http://nigeon.github.io/refere<wbr>ndum.cat/</a></div>
<div dir="auto"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.ref1oct.eu/" target="_blank">https://www.ref1oct.eu/</a></div>
<div dir="auto"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.ref1oct.cat/" target="_blank">https://www.ref1oct.cat/</a></div>
<div dir="auto"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://ref1oct.net/" target="_blank">http://ref1oct.net/</a></div>
<div dir="auto"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://ref1oct.org/" target="_blank">http://ref1oct.org/</a></div>
<div dir="auto"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://referendum.zalo.nyc/" target="_blank">http://referendum.zalo.nyc/</a></div>
<div dir="auto"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://aniol.github.io/referendum.cat/"
target="_blank">https://aniol.github.io/refere<wbr>ndum.cat/</a></div>
<div dir="auto"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://referendumcat.cat/" target="_blank">http://referendumcat.cat/</a></div>
<div dir="auto"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://holadictadura.github.io/referendum_catalunya/"
target="_blank">https://holadictadura.github.i<wbr>o/referendum_catalunya/</a><br>
<br>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:x-small">For the
sites hosted in Spain and under .cat TLD the police
replaced its content for the "legal notice". For those
others hosted abroad Spanish telecoms have been forced to
block access to their users. This affects users connecting
through the main telecoms in Spain (not just Catalonia).<br>
<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:x-small">It's
relevant to point out that the content of those sites
comes from the Catalan Government and not from a criminal
organization and is about promotion and organisation of
the referendum.<br>
<br>
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Yesterday night the list grew with new sites closed directly
by the Spanish police without explicit request from any
judge and created not by the Catalan Government, but for
independent private institutions. This one: <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://empaperem.cat"
target="_blank">empaperem.cat</a> was asking people to
hold posters about the referendum in the streets (banned),
another one <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://vullvotar.cat" target="_blank">vullvotar.cat</a>
defending the right of people to vote and the most relevant
one: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://assemblea.cat"
target="_blank">assemblea.cat</a> from the association
that co-organised the huge demonstrations during the last
years. This one has rapidly replicated at <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://assemblea.eu"
target="_blank">assemblea.eu</a> (still accessible, but it
will likely be blocked in a few hours time).<br>
<br>
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<div>Warmest regards<br>
</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2017-09-26 10:20 GMT+02:00 Borka
Jerman Blazic <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:borka@e5.ijs.si" target="_blank">borka@e5.ijs.si</a>></span>:<br>
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class="gmail-m_8657295155521908808m_5173167962928295264moz-cite-prefix">I
think that in the world were Human rights have the
highest value as is claimed for EU (and Spain is<br>
an EU MS) the only cases when internet site/content
blocking is<br>
tolerated is the hate speech that includes racism,
terrorism, criminal matters, offence, insult to, human
and arms smuggling, or similar content. <br>
<br>
I believe that nothing similar was found in the
Catalonian sites that were blocked. <br>
Catalonia is a part of Spain and the population there
can decide about their own referendum, so <br>
it is difficult this to be considered as "illegal". It
is people voice. <br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Borka<br>
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<div class="gmail-m_8657295155521908808gmail_signature">Magí
Lluch-Ariet<br>
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<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
Prof.dr.Borka Jerman-Blažič
Head, Laboratory for Open systems and Networks
Jožef Stefan Institute and
Faculty of Economics, Ljubljana University
Slovenia
tel. +386 1 477 3408
tel. +386 1 477 3756
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