<story><title>Without even knowing: the HN post I missed</title><url>http://majurojs.org/withoutevenknowing.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>parfe</author><text>&quot;&lt;i&gt;I clicked the link, but Hacker News is often blocked in the Marshall Islands, so I got a 404.&lt;/i&gt;&quot;&lt;p&gt;Is there reason for the blocking?  Is it the government censoring content? Or is it simply an island nation has to ration its bandwidth?&lt;p&gt;I ask because Marshall Islands are in a free association with the United States (where the US provides services and protection). Preventing residents from reaching US websites really rubs me the wrong way.&lt;p&gt;Maybe I&apos;m just reading too much into the word block when he really means unreachable.  Marshall Islands are rated as Free under the Freedom of Press Report, but are unclassified by the OpenNet Initiative.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_country&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_country&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;edit: I am sorry for my  tangent based on a single line in your write up.  It really jumped out at me and I hope you can expand on the situation.&lt;p&gt;You have a cool product and congratulations on the exposure.  Good luck!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gojomo</author><text>I&apos;ve occasionally been at public wifi spots in the USA where HN is blocked, because on some &apos;safe internet&apos; services, the site may be categorized as being related to illegal or controversial activities.&lt;p&gt;The HN name and occasional subject matter -- about censorship controversies, security breaches, and circumvention techniques -- contributes to this impression.  Some paranoid law-and-order nothing-that-risks-the-children types will classify HN that way, and then choose to block all sites of that classification on certain public/free wifi services.&lt;p&gt;(IIRC, my experience may have been at a Whole Foods market in the US, which was subscribing to some classification lists via OpenDNS. This was years ago, though, and I reported it as a misclassification at the time.)</text></comment>
<story><title>Without even knowing: the HN post I missed</title><url>http://majurojs.org/withoutevenknowing.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>parfe</author><text>&quot;&lt;i&gt;I clicked the link, but Hacker News is often blocked in the Marshall Islands, so I got a 404.&lt;/i&gt;&quot;&lt;p&gt;Is there reason for the blocking?  Is it the government censoring content? Or is it simply an island nation has to ration its bandwidth?&lt;p&gt;I ask because Marshall Islands are in a free association with the United States (where the US provides services and protection). Preventing residents from reaching US websites really rubs me the wrong way.&lt;p&gt;Maybe I&apos;m just reading too much into the word block when he really means unreachable.  Marshall Islands are rated as Free under the Freedom of Press Report, but are unclassified by the OpenNet Initiative.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_country&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_country&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;edit: I am sorry for my  tangent based on a single line in your write up.  It really jumped out at me and I hope you can expand on the situation.&lt;p&gt;You have a cool product and congratulations on the exposure.  Good luck!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jmilloy</author><text>I spent a year teaching in the Marshall Islands. There is definitely room for conspiracy theories, if you lean that way, relating to the testing that occurred there and even basic unexploded ordnance. I vaguely remember potentially relevant websites seeming blocked, but I never bothered to investigate and can&apos;t really provide more details. I certainly don&apos;t see why hacker news would have been blocked, anyways.</text></comment>