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Reader question: IP block?
Dear readers,
I like to read articles on TPO.nl, because this is a site that brings news fairly objectively (could be my glasses though 🙂 ). Since today they block IP addresses in Thailand. Does anyone have the same experience?
This is the message:
Error 1009 Ray ID: 42799cd260aa49bb • 2018-06-08 07:23:21 UTC
Access denied
What happened?
The owner of this website (www.tpo.nl) has banned the country or region your IP address is in (TH) from accessing this website.
Thanks.
Regards,
Goort
Correct, I noticed this too. Read the articles very frequently. I even sent an email to the TPO, but as usual in NL and Europe you will not receive an answer these days.
In any case, do not understand why Thailand is blocked by the TPO.
Goort, incidentally, this website has not been blocked since today, but something before 23/05. I sent an email on 23/05 nl.
Yes, Blocked in Thailand and Cambodia.
Just install a vpn and it works again
I just logged in. Goes well. I do use a VPN server that is located in the Netherlands. Maybe that's the cause?
Sincerely,
Klaasje123
Try a VPN connection. Should work.
Install VPN, then you can choose which country your computer appears to be in
You can bypass country blockades via a proxy. Then it seems as if you are sitting behind the computer somewhere else in the world. Just Google “proxy site” or “proxy server”. There are also web browsers that can work via a proxy server by default, for example because of privacy or whatever reasons.
Below are just some Google results. Choose the country from which you supposedly want to use the internet, in your case choose the Netherlands/Netherlands so that it looks like your computer is in the Netherlands
https://www.proxysite.com/nl/
https://hide.me/nl/proxy
By the way, TPO is a right-wing website, it is a counterpart of the left-wing Joop. For neutral, objective news, it is better to go to the well-known media channels (NOS, NRC, AD, Fin. Dagblad, nu,nl, ANP). Consciously consulting left-wing (Joop, the green) and right-wing (TPO, powned) is of course fine if you consciously read biased news and backgrounds from your 'own' camp and of course also keep some other groups busy. I also sometimes notice, for example, what crazy left-wing and right-wing (action) groups have for (I think) strange ideas, such as those absurd anti-ZP arrival ruiners or bacon steaks-at-mosque idiots. There is nothing wrong with hearing diverse perspectives.
Hey NOS, AD, NRC objectively?
What rock have you come from under.
Yes okay we (all?) learn at school that really neutral and objective does not exist. Even the choice of what to report or not to report is already a selection and therefore a certain perspective. But the said media do their best to see neutral. Or are you suggesting something else?
At opinion/current affairs sites such as Joop (left) and TPO (right) you can be 100% sure that objective and neutral reporting is not a priority. They can therefore be a good addition to the 'we try to be neutral' media. But then you have to follow various colored media and not just those that fit your own street. If you only agree with the media you read then you know that you are probably being presented with colored images. Only yes marbles you should not want. A little counter-gas and other ideas can't hurt anyone.
If Goort feels comfortable with TPO, that's fine by him (no sarcasm), but I would advise him to also follow some left-wing media as a counterweight or at least also 'classic media when trying to be genuinely objective'. Or stick to just TPO, which is also possible, but don't have the illusion that they are 'reasonably neutral'.
See also:
https://decorrespondent.nl/6073/waarom-objectieve-journalistiek-een-misleidende-en-gevaarlijke-illusie-is/155650990-09fc1192
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2014/11/17/objectieve-journalist-bestaat-niet-1439349-a1396567
Nb: for Thai media I keep it with:
– theNation
— Khaosod English
– Prachatai English
– Bangkok Post
– Coconuts (Bangkok)
– Thai PBS (sporadic)
But if anyone out there has any English-language recommendations, I'd love to hear them. I like to stay informed about what is happening in the Netherlands and Thailand.
Andrew MacGregor Marshall's Facebook page is also very instructive.
Of course I do that, read articles in de Volkskrant, occasionally NRC, sometimes watched Nieuwsuur, but I do have the experience that BNN/Vara programs such as Buitenhof are just left-wing billboards, which I don't want.
I choked on my sandwich when reading the words “neutral, objective” and NOS and NRC in the same sentence.
Intentional mistranslations, omissions of important sentences, one-sided interpretation of events, talking to the mouth of the ruling elite with the wallet in the right place - the term fake news was invented to describe an institution like the NOS.
The beauty of the internet age is that you can consult different sources yourself, and draw your own conclusions. And they are often remarkably different from the NOS or NRC, which they portray.
No idea what caused it, but with a VPN you can bypass the blockade.
I don't know if I can report this here, but I will.
Take VPN express vpn is a good one for example.
Easy to install. Can be used for Windows, Mac and Android.
It's also not expensive and you have complete freedom again.
success
Hello Gort,
This is very common for network/system administrators.
You set up a website for a specific target group/region and you block all others.
This often prevents many incidents in the security field that you as a sysop are not waiting for.
The solution is also obvious use a proxy server to visit the websites in europe.
Simple right..
Regards Emily
Just use a proxy server / problem solved
Dear Goort,
I just tested this website, and indeed their geo-location restriction does not allow reading from Thailand (so it is not Thailand which would block IP addresses)
Easy to solve (just tested): Install OPERA browser , the regular or the “portable” version , the portable version does not require any intervention in your system, you can even put it on a USB stick.
Start Opera browser and go to settings (click on the red O at the top left). In the settings, go to privacy & security, there you will see VPN, check it. Now return to the browser screen and you will now see a blue field “VPN” to the left of the address line, click on it and select “Europe”. Now type in TPO.nl and it should work, at least it does here.
You can of course also choose a different VPN, for example I also use HOLA VPN, free of charge, but you have to keep an eye on it because they also route traffic through your connection in the background – so turn it off if you are not using it.
Best of luck and happy reading!
Use VPN.
There is a vpn function in the “Opera Browser”, just turn it on and it works.
If you want to use IE, Google Chrome, Chrome or Mozilla Firefox, use
of the “FreeGate” program.
I also read TPO regularly until I got that error message. I sent an email and received the answer that, among other things, from Thailand they had to deal with DDoS attacks.
In any case, thanks for the tips and explanation about VPN.
We also use HOLA, this for Netflix, so that we now also have Dutch subtitles.
And this is how you see how user-friendly and free the internet really is…
Or I may be getting too old…. 🙂
Otherwise, VPNs are as old as the road to Rome…and it doesn't have much to do with freedom.
TPO blocks Thailand because of dDos attacks. dDos attacks are intended to restrict freedom of expression, and are used by opposing parties (I suddenly think of someone like Soros). Often they let this disruptive traffic run through proxies in 3rd world countries such as Thailand.
Thailand is not a third world country but an upper middle income country.
And thanks everyone for the tips….. now understand why you do that… have a VPN, but don't use it all the time, because of course it makes for a slower connection, and turning it on and off every time you click on an article from Twitter is very user-unfriendly. But anyway… learned a lesson again.
Thanks!