Interesting recent effect when trying to download a paper on certain cancer research. I have downloaded thousands from this site over the years but as of today my assigned DNS decided that I should not do this anymore. Now this is hardly political, T cell aspects of cancer immunotherapy, but alas some useless gnome decided to filter out my access. They called it malware. It was a pdf paper from an accredited journal provider!
Now the DNS, or domain name server, is a device that takes your address and converts it to an IP format to then go over the Internet. It so happens that they also have look-up tables to decide what is an acceptable and non-acceptable IP destination. The DNS, often some unknown obscure entity become a censor. You never knew they were there, but if they do not like you they block you. China is the King of DNS operators. But for some reason the US players have entered the game. The assert for example that the site you want has malware. Even if there is no reason to assert this.
I tried telling them, the DNS entity in question, as such but alas they decided to inhibit my access to knowledge. I was able to redirect to another DNS but I doubt that many could do that.
It is shocking that the reach of these controllers of speech have now reached into fundamental research. There is no law to inhibit this behavior. They are censoring what can be seen on the Internet. Not because it is illegal but because they deem it inappropriate. Why one may ask is a set of papers on cancer immunotherapy inappropriate? Why does this DNS provider deem them as such. It is now not just the Silicon Valley elites but the DNS providers who get in between them and you. They are nameless players who control what you can see and what you cannot.
Pity!
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