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VampireBuddha Calendar enthusiast from Ireland (Wise, aged troper) Relationship Status: Complex: I'm real, they are imaginary
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#1: Apr 15th 2011 at 1:58:14 PM

I tried to visit Conservapedia, but I keep getting a 403 message. Is something going on over there?

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Morgan Freeman is God.
Malph All hail from The middle of somewhere Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: I want you to want me
All hail
#4: Apr 15th 2011 at 4:52:17 PM

403 basically means the site doesn't want you there. So you were probably banned.

So, in the U.S., randomly stripping is a signal that you want to sing the national anthem? - That Human
Mullon Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
#5: Apr 15th 2011 at 5:48:38 PM

Congrats?

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EmilyD Since: Aug, 2011
#6: Apr 15th 2011 at 9:41:48 PM

Where do you live? I hear that Conservapedia periodically blocks whole IP ranges in non-US countries from even viewing.

edited 15th Apr '11 9:42:06 PM by EmilyD

PDown It's easy, mmkay? Since: Jan, 2012
It's easy, mmkay?
#7: Apr 15th 2011 at 10:01:37 PM

"Obesity and Atheism" has to get the new record for "most obviously Conservapedia article title".

At first I didn't realize I needed all this stuff...
SomeSortOfTroper Since: Jan, 2001
#8: Apr 16th 2011 at 7:31:41 AM

Vampire Buddha is in Ireland, I'm in Scotland. Alongside an Englishman we can enter Conservapedia nor pubs no longer.

Using a US based proxy works.

MrAHR Ahr river from ಠ_ಠ Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: A cockroach, nothing can kill it.
Ahr river
#9: Apr 16th 2011 at 7:32:42 AM

[lol] BWAHAHAHAHAH.

They blocked the UK?

[lol]

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SomeSortOfTroper Since: Jan, 2001
#10: Apr 16th 2011 at 7:34:24 AM

They probably figured out that there wasn't a single foreigner who wasn't coming in just to have a laugh. Total US-centric bias is written into their version of reality.

MrAHR Ahr river from ಠ_ಠ Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: A cockroach, nothing can kill it.
Blueeyedrat YEEEEAH— no. from nowhere in particular. Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Mu
YEEEEAH— no.
#12: Apr 16th 2011 at 8:00:38 AM

And yet, Canada remains unblocked. Interesting. By the way:

Creation science supporters and other doubters of Darwinism appear to be on the verge of a major win in Tennessee. Article link

Watch the evolutionism dominoes start falling as the South, Midwest and various states in the United States adopt protections for academic freedom. And of course, pro-evolution newspapers are losing readers and revenue, homeschooling is growing, more charter schools open, liberal colleges are closing in the down economy, PBS could lose public funding, etc etc. The future certainly doesn't look promising for evolutionism.

There's no way they actually read the article. If they did, they'd see that most of it is scientists and teachers decrying the legislation as complete bullshit.

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KingZila Entirely irrelevant from SPACE Since: Apr, 2009
Entirely irrelevant
#13: Apr 16th 2011 at 9:24:37 AM

Apparently, they've only blocked the parts of the UK that they've heard of, because I'm in Wales and I can see the site fine.

I am so angry right now I could punch a horse to the ground.
captainbrass2 from the United Kingdom Since: Mar, 2011
#14: Apr 16th 2011 at 12:15:49 PM

The site initially let me in, but now I too appear to be banned for the heinous crime of Englishness. As they list "YMCA" by The Village People as a great conservative song because its all about young men getting involved in a Christian organisation, I think all I'm missing are a few cheap laughs at their expense.

"Well, it's a lifestyle"
Funnyguts Since: Sep, 2010
#15: Apr 16th 2011 at 3:41:22 PM

^That one was almost certainly put there by a troll. Assume that everyone not named Andrew Schafly is a troll. And I do mean everyone, even people who seem high up in the wiki's hierarchy.

silver2195 Since: Jan, 2001
#16: Apr 16th 2011 at 4:33:03 PM

[up]Are you sure Andrew Schafly isn't a troll?

Currently taking a break from the site. See my user page for more information.
VampireBuddha Calendar enthusiast from Ireland (Wise, aged troper) Relationship Status: Complex: I'm real, they are imaginary
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#17: Apr 16th 2011 at 4:48:42 PM

OK, that makes sense. Wow, I knew Andy was quite rabid about blocking people, but to ban my entire country... Cripes.

I've never even tried to edit... I wonder if I sent Andy an email and asked nicely, he might let me back in. I did consider trying to infiltrate it, but really, at this point vandalising it is like trolling 4chan.

By the way Zila, would you like to go to a bar with me and SSOT?

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Funnyguts Since: Sep, 2010
#18: Apr 16th 2011 at 4:57:10 PM

^^Very, considering he's the son of Phyllis Schafly.

KingZila Entirely irrelevant from SPACE Since: Apr, 2009
Entirely irrelevant
#19: Apr 17th 2011 at 3:19:43 AM

^^ I sure would! I'm sure we'll be able to have a nice drink without anything of particular note happening.

Anyway, to keep this relevant, I think this might just be my favorite page on the site.

I am so angry right now I could punch a horse to the ground.
Fawriel Since: Jan, 2001
#20: Apr 17th 2011 at 3:47:45 AM

Germany is banned, too.

Hidoi desu~

Anton Galen, Galnare, Galnast from Sweden Since: Feb, 2010
Galen, Galnare, Galnast
#21: Apr 17th 2011 at 9:54:24 AM

Used to be I couldn't get in, but now I can. o.o (I'm in Sweden, by the way)

eX 94. Grandmaster of Shark Since: Jan, 2001
94. Grandmaster of Shark
Fawriel Since: Jan, 2001
#23: Apr 17th 2011 at 11:15:13 AM

Maybe it's because I'm in Commieland.

NapoleonDeCheese Since: Oct, 2010
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#25: Apr 17th 2011 at 8:16:53 PM

Don't worry people, you're not missing much.

@Blueeyedrat: I need to pull shards of glass out of my eye because my irony meter just exploded.


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