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I bring you yet another ironic display of #hypocrisy. The UN’s Universal Declaration of #humanRights has recently become an access-restricted document. If you are in the excluded group you get a #403forbidden error. And worse, if you try to fetch a copy using the #WaybackMachine, /everyone/ gets to see a copy of the 403 error instead of the human rights declaration because the #UN is blocking the #InternetArchive (effectively, the UN has become anti-Library).
Aug 12, 2023 at 7:58amWeb
Show threadContradiction FinderAug 12, 2023

Isn’t it bizarre that there are some US states & local govs that put legal code behind #paywalls?

Why isn’t there outrage that people are bound by laws they do not have open and free access to? You must pay a fee to see the plumbing code. A lot of #law nationwide is jailed in #Cloudflare, so you don’t get access to the legal statutes if you are excluded by Cloudflare. If you want to read tax law, the #IRS website directly blocks Tor users.

I just now wanted to read the International Bill of #HumanRights on a highly ranked site: #humanrightscareers.com, & got swamped with popups, animated ads, & garbage that drained my data credit. This should not be a consequence of getting public legal code.

So what’s the solution?

Check all that apply.

#poll

status quo is fine- let law be exclusive access
0%
law should be text/PDF/PS & FTP downloadable
36.7%
law should be published on a lynx-compatible site
30%
law should be reachable from ANY IP address
33.3%
Poll ended at .
Show threadBoudAug 12, 2023

@batalanto

You're right: dig www.un.org gives

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.un.org. XXXX IN CNAME d1z8tokz9k79tw.cloudfront.net.

Some of the Wayback snapshots got through, e.g. [1].

What alternatives to #Cloudflare can be proposed to UN web sysadmins? Recent thread including @selea @martijn has suggestions such as https://noc.org and

# apt install fail2ban crowdsec

in [3].

@beto

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20230811040727/https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights

[2] https://social.linux.pizza/@selea/110843731792358387

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Show threadBoudAug 12, 2023

@batalanto

I just sent an email through the contact form at https://www.un.org/en/contact-us-0

Reporting a bug in the most "obvious" place is not sufficient to fix it, but increases the probability of it being fixed. Unfortunately, the UN website does not (yet?) seem to have a standard git forge for reporting bugs. A good aim for the future would be that every organisation with a web presence (including corporations and govts) should have a public git forge for bug reports.

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html

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Show threadBeto DealmeidaAug 12, 2023

@boud @batalanto @selea @martijn oh wow... I was reading the NOC website and when I saw the features I thought "yeah, but how much is this going to cost me?!?"

And then I saw the price: $5 per site per month!

That's amazing!

Show thread 𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚊 Aug 12, 2023

@beto

I think that @dcid is the one who manages it

@boud @batalanto @martijn

Show thread 𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚊 Aug 12, 2023

@boud

Keep in mind that cloudfront is not cloudflare

@batalanto @martijn @beto

Show threadBoudAug 12, 2023

@selea

Whoops! I didn't realise that... Thanks for the clarification. I see that Cloudfront is #Amazon in #GAFAM, and Amazon is clearly opposed to most of the UN principles [2].

@batalanto @martijn @beto

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_CloudFront

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Amazon

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Show threadContradiction FinderAug 12, 2023
@boud @beto @martijn @selea That’s another good find worthy of the #hypocrisy tag. #Amazon pushes the limits of #humanRights abuses & the #UN (who advocates codified human rights guidance) has hired the hosting supplier most antithetical to their mission. Yikes. That’s embarrassing.
Show threadContradiction FinderAug 12, 2023
@selea @martijn @beto @boud And regarding Cloudflare, they’re indeed not in the picture here AFAICT. But it looks like the #UN has been #antiTor for longer than I recalled: https://0xacab.org/dCF/antitor_domains/-/blob/master/TXT/antitor_u.txt#L1393
TXT/antitor_u.txt · master · Crimeflare / Anti-Tor FQDN list · GitLab

Anti-Tor FQDN lists by #Crimeflare #deCloudflare and its contributors / http://crimeflare.eu.org

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Show threadContradiction FinderAug 12, 2023
@boud @beto @martijn @selea Thanks for digging up functional version of the #UniversalDeclarationOfHumanRights. You saved me from that effort. Although in principle it wouldn’t be a big effort as the #deCloudflare / karma project produced a tool that automatically finds the last non-403’d archive in the #WaybackMachine :)
Show threadBoudAug 13, 2023

@batalanto

The UN docs server is even worse: https://undocs.org it's Amazon and the pdfs are un-archivable.

But there's a workaround.

Official UN records, UN documents, and UN public relations material is generally in the public domain [1]. Volunteers can enter any UN record/document/PR into Wikisource and verify it: UNHDR1948 [2], UNSCR1325 [3], 2023 UNSCRs: missing [4].

[1] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Administrative_Instruction_ST/AI/189/Add.9/Rev.2

[2] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights

[3] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_1325

[4] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Portal:United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolutions/2023

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