Hong Kong: Internet censorship (part II)

Yesterday's post has now been picked up by Raymond Roland Soong of the mass circulation blog EastSouthWestNorth. First as a link, and then as a full post. Worth a read, highly recommended. Thanks, EastSouthWestNorth!

Included in EastSouthWestNorth's post is a tracert that suggests something is happening in North America.

Mister B, inspired by EastSouthWestNorth's example, has now also run several traceroutes. Here are two. The first is from UCLA Berkley to ntscmp.com:

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The second traceroute is from Hong Kong's HGC (Hutchison Global Communications) to ntscmp.com:
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As you can see, both traceroutes putter to a halt in North America. What gives? Anyone have any ideas? Yet one is still able to access ntscmp.com -- whose webserver is in Fort Lauderdale, Florida -- by using a proxy server: browseatcollege

Puzzling.

One last thing, EastSouthWestNorth is a lot more circumspect in reporting than has been Mister B. Perhaps Mister B has been hasty. But when it walks like a duck, swims like a duck, quacks like a duck, et cetera. . . As they say elsewhere, the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

Fair and balanced? Stay tuned.

Oh, for traceroute aficianados: bgp4