Verizon Wireless explicitly blocking 4chan?

By on Feb 8, 2010 at 10:51 AM
News February 8, 2010

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4chan, the internet message and image board known for its legion of anonymous users, has been explicitly blocked by Verizon Wireless. 4chan founder Christopher Poole said, “Over the past 72 hours, we’ve been receiving reports from Verizon Wireless customers having difficulty accessing the image boards… After an hour and a half on the phone, we’ve received confirmation from Verizon’s Network Repair Bureau (NRB) that we are ‘explicitly blocked.’” The reported block is not affecting users of Verizon’s home services, such as DSL or FIOS, and is only actively dropping connections from port 80, “no other subdomain/IP/port is affected.” Memo to Verizon Wireless: “Thou shall not agitate 4chan” is one, of very few, unwritten rules of the internet. No official word yet from Verizon Wireless as to why the block was put in place.

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  • droidiord

    i don’t see what all the fuss is about?!?! i want the 2 minutes i spent there back, that website is lame.

  • therodt

    4CHAN IS EPIC… It actually is so bad a$$

  • Ace

    They are a bunch of no poontang fleshlight getting losers that just hack sites like when they tried to get at ATT and they got PWNED…and i wanna see if they are stupid enough to do it so i can laugh when the authorites get in their ass!! Puntas!!

  • Alexlock

    for reals what is up with that website ?
    ive been on there like for 20 sec and it looks like crap

  • SOUTHERN MISS ELITE

    4CHAN is the most bigoted site I’ve seen on the net. I’m not offended that the site is blocked.

    And I can almost bet my bottom dollar that there won’t be a legion of verizon wireless customers who will leave and terminate their contract because the site was blocked.

  • Jennifer L

    4 chan is mainly a homosexual pick up site.

  • ~Phel

    That wierd, it’s like I’m double posting? It’s hapening on the droid forum too?

  • jk

    4chan is the stupidest site ever made filled with the stupidest immature users….

    BUT has anyone ever heard of freedom of speech? Be it lame, immature, perverted, whatever you call it, its still an expression of free speech and VZW shouldnt be blocking it.

  • Michael Scott

    ROFLcopter

  • iknowthings
  • Giorgio

    Hahaha… Yeah… Verizon’s choice of red, white and black isn’t irony.

    Those who’ve worked there (and didn’t chug the Verizon-aide) know all too well…

  • http://ffh.squarespace.com Bill W

    Its working now…

  • http://www.leifandersen.net Leif Andersen

    Although I haven’t ever done much with 4Chan, it is sad to see this happening, as it could be the death of net neutrality.

  • Derek

    It’s working now, can we stfu about the ghetto that is 4chan?

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