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Censorship

Submission + - Internet Censorship in Paraguay

Submitted by
der_alte
der_alte writes: "A few days to presidential elections in Paraguay, the official party at government began dns-hijacking sistematically a number of websites they consider "objectionable content". Those sites are run by another political party and contains mainly strong criticism to well known politicians involved in embarrasing corruption acts.
The official party, the Partido Colorado (ANR), had doomed this little country since 1954, and currently have little chance of continuing in the power without resorting to massive electoral fraud.
The government has a monopoly on Internet fiber access in Paraguay, and there's no practicable way to reach the outside world without passing trough the COPACO infraestructure, wich is the statal telecomunications company. As a side note, the Internet access in Paraguay is probably the most expensive in the region, with a penetration of roughly 4% and a population of 6 million people.
Currently there are reports of four hijacked domains: www.partidocolorado.org and www.victorbogado.com (diverted to www.anr.org.py), www.bastacarajo.com and www.patriaquerida.org (diverted to porn sites).
The issue was notified to the ICANN and other authorities."
Government

Submission + - Free Speech (tocorre.com)

Submitted by
Luis Benitez
Luis Benitez writes: "In electoral times COPACO the statal telecomunication company of Paraguay decide to censore the Internet, as they can.

This company has a monopoly over the International Fiber access of all comunication over the Internet. Every single mail has to pass their infraestructure to reach its destiny.

But theses are electoral times in Paraguay, the "Partido Colorado" is ruling this litle south american country since 1954. Now they have truly chances to lose the national election on april 20th. A little party that is running against this stablishment is "Partido Patria Querida". They have a page outside Paraguay, on the Internet, but all customer at COPACO see a porn site if they try to access this page. This is a dns high jacking issue. (you can dig at ns1.copaco.com.py and any other dns server over the Internet and see by yourself)

COPACO is doing the same with other domains www.victorbogado.com is redirected to www.anr.org.py, www.partidocolorado.org is redirected to www.anr.org.py, www.bastacarajo.com is redirected to a porn site, maybe others?).



With this no only in China the local goverment is censoring the access to Internet, in South America is doing the same as well.



This is the way the local goverment understand how to manage the Internet."
Privacy

Submission + - Hijacking political adversaries domains

Submitted by psanta
psanta writes: Apparently, China is not the only country censoring Internet access. In Paraguay, South America, the ruling party owns the biggest ISP in the country, and they are hijacking political adversaries domains to prevent its huge customer base to access their sites.
These domains are bastacarajo.com, www.partidocolorado.org and www.victorbogado.com. If any regular DNS server is queried, the correct answer is given back. However, if using ISP's DNS server (201.217.1.230), they are claiming themselves being the Authority for that domain and redirecting all the traffic to the government's party official website in some cases and to pornographic sites in others.
What are the entities should ISP's user file a formal complain with? ICANN? IANA?

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