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Has the EU started blocking some demographics of people (e.g. Tor users) from access to EU law? (eur-lex.europa.eu)
submitted 2 months ago by ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io to c/Law@europe.pub
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Various hosts in the *.europa.eu domain have block Tor, and some do not. Tor users have always had access to legal statutes, which IMO is the most important most basic info to have access to. Today this host suddenly demands execution of several 3rd-party JavaScript programs. And if you give up and let that shit run, it just pushes a 403 error anyway.

They are likely targeting Tor users for this discrimination but we cannot know for certain because the 403 page they throw back at us gives no information.

This is the site:

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/

We really need an open data law that prohibits having access restrictions on the law itself (the statutes) -- especially if it’s arbitrary and undocumented/non-transparent.

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[–] ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io 1 points 2 months ago

(update)

It seems all the *.europa.eu sites are blocking Tor across the board now. Even this page is unreachable to Tor users:

https://have-your-say.ec.europa.eu/index_en

It’s a bit embarrassing at the EU level. You might expect a mom/pop shop to be unable to handle Tor users, but the EU (a government of nation states) should have their infosec shit together and have the security competency to serve Tor users.