[tor-talk] answers of Ms Kroes on EP questions

[Jon]

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 8:30 AM, <andrew at torproject.is> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 02:59:34PM +0200, freebsd-listen at fabiankeil.dewrote 1.8K bytes in 55 lines about:
> : BTW, some people think blocking Tor without proper cause violates EU law
> : and apparently a complaint has been filed a couple of months ago:
> :
> http://www.daten-speicherung.de/index.php/eu-commission-gives-up-blocking-tor-and-vpn-services/
>
> Indeed. They stopped blocking Tor at least for a few weeks. However,
> try to hit http://ec.europa.eu/ from Tor now.
>
> I see:
>
> "Network Error (gateway_error)
>
> Server overloaded
> The gateway may be temporarily unavailable, or there could be a network
> problem.
>
> For assistance, contact your network support team."
>
> This is the same error as before.
>
> My exit relay for that request is in the EU:
>
> chaoscomputerclub20 (Online)
> Location: Germany
> IP Address: 31.172.30.3
> Platform: Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha on Linux
> Bandwidth: 41.32 MB/s
> Uptime: 23 days 16 hours 24 mins 2 secs
> Last Updated: 2012-10-08 10:10:06 GMT
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>

I tried thru Tor and also was unable to connect. I got a 404 error message.

However I was able to connect with out Tor.

Interesting?

Jon