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[johnb820]

Hello everyone. I wanted to come here to share with you something that I am not sure I know how to respond to. I just logged into this forum via the Tor Browser where my location is somewhere in France, which is where the servers are located and I logged in just fine. However, when I try to log in to the site through a normal browser from the United States I am banned and I do not have permission to view anything.

I am disillusioned by a great number of things these days. This is the fault of the United States and its repealing of net neutrality. I am not really sure but I suspect Facebook blocks me. It really hurts to be arbitrarily blocked from the rest of you whom I have known for a long time.

I am given an option to contact someone to be unbanned, but I suspect the message goes to no one at all.

[johnb820]

Here is a screenshot of my laptop's screen.

[johnb820]

The good news is, California has a law upheld recently mandating net neutrality for websites and businesses owned and operated in the state. Democrats are looking to reinstate it at a federal level soon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Internet_Consumer_Protection_and_Net_Neutrality_Act_of_2018

[Penzoline]

I have no idea whats going on with your account. You arent  banned anywhere.

I saw these types of reports for several months on admin panel however

"Logged in from a new device but did not complete two-factor authentication: Chrome 86.x.xxxx.xx on Windows.
October 20, 2020  (IP RETRACTED) "

This is really odd, since we haven't enforced 2-factor authentication.

[Penzoline]

Yes it was because of the updates. Mars got it fixed. Something to do with database corruption.

[johnb820]

Ok, thanks Penzoline for responding. I can now access the forum by using the tor browser. Actually let me look into this and find out if it has to do with my IP or geolocation.

[johnb820]

Ok, so it seems to be my IP that is banned. I was considering that it had to do with my geolocation, being in the US but it doesn't. Penzoline, you could maybe look into any blacklistings for my IP. I can message you my IP if you would like.

[staffan]

Not the first time this happens. Not sure if it's the same, I'm not an admin.

K-Ban had this issue too. Many spammers in the states I guess. Large IP ranges being blocked.

 

[johnb820]

So uh, I wanted to respond and let you all know that as of today, I am not banned from my internet connection at home. My IP has changed as I reboot my modem often. However, I suspect that Facebook or whomever or whatever does not know something.

* I will add that I was able to get past the banned page from a local library here, though I never posted about that before.