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Re:Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald: AUAA by mkramlich on Monday February 23, 2015 @11:27PM (#9098679)
HBO here in Colorado was scheduled to show Citizenfour at 7pm local time. At approx 6pm I turned it on to get it ready. Black and silent. Continued black and silent up thru 9pm local when it was supposed to have ended. All other cable TV channels and local/public channels have worked normally during this period that I can tell. HBO worked fine yesterday and every day before for as long as I can remember. Unprecedented black out.

suspicious is saying it mildly. I wanted to post this here and on Reddit for public record in case this is evidence of a censorship attempt by NSA/gov or aligned entity.

I feel like a tin foil hat wearer to even post this but its frightening enough and serious enough that it should be recorded somewhere, as insurance.

Colorado, a dominant provider of local cable TV service, hesitant to say which city. again, all other channels are working normally. and HBO had no similar blackout effect observed by me ever before. so the cause is both unknown and suspicious.

Re:Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald: AUAA by tacos on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @12:02AM (#9098814)
It took me about three seconds to find your city, address, consulting company -- and that you're a Pisces. Do you really live in a world where the spooks block HBO but can't figure out who you are from this post?
Re:Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald: AUAA by mkramlich on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @12:09AM (#9098837)
haha. fair point.

EDIT: if you think you have my address please email it to me (its in my profile). my opsec is far from perfect, haha, but I doubt its bad enough for you to have found it (that quickly anyway)

Re:Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald: AUAA by tacos on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @12:21AM (#9098886)
[snip] :)
Re:Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald: AUAA by mkramlich on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @12:31AM (#9098924)
I was not able to correlate that hint with either a correct or incorrect guess. but regardless, please only make such attempts in private via email. ;-)

update: 10:30pm and still the only local cable/public cbannel out is HBO. I'm sure perfectly innocent reason. *cough

EDIT: thank you

Re:Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald: AUAA by mkramlich on Thursday February 26, 2015 @05:16PM (#9115943)
for the public record, HBO came back the next day

AFAIK, HBO (here, for me, my provider) had a total visual/sound outage on that day, only, the day that Citizenfour was to debut on air. HBO worked fine every day before. and every day since. I made no changes. and I've seen no explanation for it.

Re:Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald: AUAA by numinit on Monday February 23, 2015 @11:52PM (#9098777)
Whoa, really? What cable provider?
Re:Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald: AUAA by mkramlich on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @12:08AM (#9098834)
its one of the two local dominant ones but I'm not sure which. I'll try to find out tomorrow. I'd say the city but this topic is already terrifying enough considering the nature of the "adversary", haha, oh man. if you email me I'll tell you city. I'm hoping to see reports from others. I find it hard to believe it would just be one person, one device. surely whoever/whatever did this would do an entire region/provider combo, at a minimum

10pm local. checked again. still black and silent. all other channels fine still, showing shows.

Re:Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald: AUAA by ScottBurson on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @02:08AM (#9099206)
We've just been watching it here in Sunnyvale, CA.