Argentina Censors Over a Million Blogs

In his first accepted submission, bs0d3 writes "A judge in Argentina ordered ISPs to block two websites — leakymails.com and leakymails.blogspot.com. According to Google, many ISPs have simply blocked the IP 216.239.32.2 instead of using a targeted DNS filter. Over a million blogs are hosted by Blogger at this IP. Freedom of speech advocate Jillian York wrote, 'IP blocking is a blunt method of filtering content that can erase from view large swaths of innocuous sites by virtue of the fact that they are hosted on the same IP address as the site that was intended to be censored. One such example of overblocking by IP address can be found in India, where the IP blocking of a Hindu Unity website (blocked by an order from Mumbai police) resulted in the blocking of several other, unrelated sites."

Wrong headline

[Anonymous Coward]

Wrong headline: a judge ordered two websites blocked, not "over a million blogs".

Re:What are they censoring?

[Anonymous Coward]

If you're outside Argentina, go see for yourself: http://leakymails.com

If you're in Argentina, here are the official mirrors [leakymails.com]:
http://leakymails.tk
http://leakymails1.tk
http://leakymails2.tk
http://justiciainutil.tk

Here's an article about LeakyMails: Argentina: Judge orders all ISPs to block the sites LeakyMails.com and Leakymails.blogspot.com [globalvoicesonline.org]

Using the motto “Let’s stop lies and hypocrisy”, Leakymails.com was a project designed to obtain and publish relevant documents exposing corruption of the political class and the powerful in Argentina. The site was open to publish emails either from official or personal accounts, pictures, videos or any other document exposing misbehaviors or unethical actions of public figures in the Southern country, where corruption is rampant. [...]

The use of the past tense is strange. Leakymails seems very much alive.