SESTA/FOSTA Law Passage > What it means for TAG?

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Babaram said:
Loss of Cloudflare should not be a big problem. If Switter's techs are on the ball, the site should be back up in a few hours.
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it's already back up, but it is still blocked on a network basis so no one on cloudflare's network can get directly to switter's IPs
 
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Babaram said:
Loss of Cloudflare should not be a big problem. If Switter's techs are on the ball, the site should be back up in a few hours.
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It never really went down; they just disabled the CDN and it was back fairly quickly. But, it was predicted that CF would kick them off given the new laws. The switter people claimed to not use an U.S. service, but yet routed their data through cloudflare... which of course, has now, kicked them off.
 
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impish said:
it's already back up, but it is still blocked on a network basis so no one on cloudflare's network can get directly to switter's IPs
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Can you explain that last part a little more, that doesn't make sense, if I'm reading it correctly. ??
 
impish said:
it's already back up, but it is still blocked on a network basis so no one on cloudflare's network can get directly to switter's IPs
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Sorry, that doesn't make sense at all, technically. If I delegate my domain away from blocking Cloudflare, it will be accessible to all once the DNS resolves. Switter.at resolves to 45.124.53.112, which is a Mammoth Media server in Brisbane, Australia.
 
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Babaram said:
Sorry, that doesn't make sense at all, technically. If I delegate my domain away from blocking Cloudflare, it will be accessible to all once the DNS resolves. Switter.at resolves to 45.124.53.112, which is a Mammoth Media server in Brisbane, Australia.
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Any provider can block any any IP address from being accessed by their network. Therefore, by domain or by IP address cloudflare can do a few things, in DNS they can block the domain from giving an IP address back to the requester. In their routers' routing tables they can block the IP address, they can tell their routers to basically say. If someone asks for this IP address, then don't allow the route to go through. That is what I took away from the article that they were being "blocked".

"But on Wednesday, Assembly Four, the organization that developed Switter, announced that its content delivery network provided by Cloudflare removed and blocked Switter"

Now maybe I'm reading too much into the article, but it is trivial for a network administrator to block a website. I have worked at many companies where many a website was blocked by domain and IP address to prevent us from visiting places like facebook on work hours.
 
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impish said:
Any provider can block any any IP address from being accessed by their network. Therefore, by domain or by IP address cloudflare can do a few things, in DNS they can block the domain from giving an IP address back to the requester. In their routers' routing tables they can block the IP address, they can tell their routers to basically say. If someone asks for this IP address, then don't allow the route to go through. That is what I took away from the article that they were being "blocked".
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Cloudflare is no provider, and it doesn't have a network. It is a very good CDN with pops around the world. Basically, Cloudflare is a huge caching proxy with bells & whistles.
When Cloudlfare "blocked" switter, it simply stopped delivering cached content, and did not forward the non-cached traffic to Switter's servers.

The solution is to stop using Cloudflare, and to delegate the domain away from Cloudflare. Done.

Cloudflare operates DNS, and even its own public DNS at 1.1.1.1 resolves Switter.at to 45.124.53.112, as it should now. Do a traceroute switter.at, and you won't get near any Cloudflare routers.

All of this has nothing at all to do with a company, or a whole country blocking a URL or IP
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I was going by what the article wrote, I don't use cloudflare so am not familiar with all of it's services, so from what the article wrote it sounded like it was a standard ISP not just a CDN
 
Even though I’m a pro-domme based in Japan, Cracker was the best spot to place ads for me and my services (It’s a shame Eros doesn’t offer a directory for dommes based in countries other than the US and UK) Now with Cracker down, I’m in a bit of a face palm mode- granted my personal website is still up, it doesn’t bring as much traffic as Cracker/Backpage...

I tried posting something up on the Japanese Craigslist yesterday, but obviously my post was taken down before I knew it...

So fellow SWs, where to now?
 
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Kinako said:
Even though I’m a pro-domme based in Japan, Cracker was the best spot to place ads for me and my services (It’s a shame Eros doesn’t offer a directory for dommes based in countries other than the US and UK) Now with Cracker down, I’m in a bit of a face palm mode- granted my personal website is still up, it doesn’t bring as much traffic as Cracker/Backpage...

I tried posting something up on the Japanese Craigslist yesterday, but obviously my post was taken down before I knew it...

So fellow SWs, where to now?
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I agree, this truely is a black page in SW history.

Backpage brings back so mang livid memories.

You can advertise on this very site here TAG. Its not free though but most girls find that they make their investment back.

There are some other escort websites that have a Tokyo section and they seem to bring girls with an ad there some clients once in a blue moon but i’ve never bothered making an ad (the websites would be City of Love, Massage republic and Tokyo chicks)
 
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User#8628 said:
I agree, this truely is a black page in SW history.

Backpage brings back so mang livid memories.

You can advertise on this very site here TAG. Its not free though but most girls find that they make their investment back.

There are some other escort websites that have a Tokyo section and they seem to bring girls with an ad there some clients once in a blue moon but i’ve never bothered making an ad (the websites would be City of Love, Massage republic and Tokyo chicks)
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I know someone who is advertising on Tokyo chicks and said she is very satisfied with the clients. Maybe it really depends. But I personally don’t have any first hand experiences.
 
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You can advertise on this very site here TAG. Its not free though but most girls find that they make their investment back.
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Thanks for the tip, Alice! :)
I wasn’t 100% sure about posting an ad here since I’m not an escort, and am not sure how much of a market TAG provides for dommes... but might give it a try ;)

It’s been a frustrating few weeks for all of us SWs...
 
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Kinako said:
Even though I’m a pro-domme based in Japan, Cracker was the best spot to place ads for me and my services (It’s a shame Eros doesn’t offer a directory for dommes based in countries other than the US and UK) Now with Cracker down, I’m in a bit of a face palm mode- granted my personal website is still up, it doesn’t bring as much traffic as Cracker/Backpage...

I tried posting something up on the Japanese Craigslist yesterday, but obviously my post was taken down before I knew it...

So fellow SWs, where to now?
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Do you advertise on Fetlife? Seems like that would be the obvious place to place and advertisement.
 
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impish said:
:-( that's too bad you would think it'd be the perfect place for that.
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I also think that FL is being super sensitive about advertising on their platform; most groups ban classifieds for P4P, and though I’ve managed to have 2-3 clients come see me at the SM Club I work for, it isn’t the biggest hub for advertising.
 
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Kinako said:
Thanks for the tip, Alice! :)
I wasn’t 100% sure about posting an ad here since I’m not an escort, and am not sure how much of a market TAG provides for dommes... but might give it a try ;)

It’s been a frustrating few weeks for all of us SWs...
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Please drop me an email to helpdesk@tokyoadultguide.com - let’s have a short chat to see if something would work here, or not. Thanks.
 
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