And this is why we don't want a centralized blockchain run by the CCP.
In those changes is a new blacklist functionality, that literally connects to a random box in China to get an EXTRA blacklist from
http://39.105.221.87:8081/steemit/blacklist
The blocklist ip sits in this network range :
inetnum: 39.96.0.0 - 39.108.255.255
netname: ALISOFT
descr: Aliyun Computing Co., LTD
descr: 5F, Builing D, the West Lake International Plaza of S&T
descr: No.391 Wen'er Road, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, 310099
country: CN
ALISOFT / ALIYUN = ALIBABA
This extra blacklist check means they don't even need to update condenser in the future, they can just push out new censorship mandates direct from China.
Thanks @justinsunsteemit for really proving our point, and giving #hive even more momentum and media attention!
NOTHING proves how correct we are to dump Justin and the virus spreading Chinese Communist Party and leave him to censor his own chain more than this.
I think the entire Steemit purchase could even be traced back to the CCP worrying about the future potential problem they will have trying to block arbitrary Steem now Hive front ends popping up and showing their oppressed and silenced people what is really going on in their country.
Annoymous Hive accounts should be promoted in all the significant Chinese languages and especially Mandarin, I'd really love to see a thriving underground Hive China movement.
This needs to be spread everywhere. Coindesk and all other crypto media need to report this!
lol.
Now that link returns an empty
dataarray. They are now hiding the blacklist somewhere elseHi @ausbitbank I had an idea to basically move all the SEO and content from steemit to hive, it would require us all manually doing it unless someone could create a tool, but please check out my idea at https://steemit.com/hive/@gringo211985/seo-solution-for-hive-io-let-s-take-our-content-with-us
BTW: here is the China's new internet law implemented on March 1st, 2020, be positive, or else, you get censored ^^