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Hey, just checking.
If you're in Canada, could you access https://www.senate.gov or https://www.warren.senate.gov and tell me if you see this page or if you see the actual websites?
EDIT: Thanks, I got many confirmations of this. Also impacts EU and UK.
@mcc oh my god. mandatory www my old friend, it has been too long. extremely on brand for a government website though
@mcc Proxying via the US, the senate.gov site loads fine, but for warren.senate.gov Access is still very much Denied (but with a different page):
@mcc idk if this is mastodon doing this, but your link is actually for "www.senate.gov" and "www.warren.senate.gov". I see the same for the latter, but I see a more generic 403 "Access Denied" page for "warren.senate.gov" without the leading www.
@vorboyvo The text of my post, and the link, go to www.warren which i believe is the true address. Mastodon is redacting the www in the display
@mcc Sweden, also see this
@mcc Switzerland the same.
@mcc i am in a part of the us that was, ehrm, surprised on november 3
i can access the sites with no vpn connection or with a vpn server in texas, but not when i use a canadian vpn server
@mcc same in Greece.
@theogrin Well what it's preventing is this Massachussetts constituent living in Canada from contacting her senators about the issues!!
@mcc in toronto. see the same error as your screenshot.
@mcc I got what you got for senate.gov I've not tried the Warren link yet (mobile)
Not sure if relevant: I also got blocked by jwz's blog on mobile but didn't get blocked on my home internet. His explanation for the block was that I probably got bitten by some fail2ban like mechanism he added due to AI scraping DDOSes.
I can't try my home internet to see if that's the same until after work tho
@mcc same from France
@mcc I see your screenshot, from a German IP
@mcc i see what you see, Ottawa
![Unauthorized
Sorry, a potential security risk was detected in your submitted request. The Webmaster has been alerted.
Reference ID: [redacted]
If this problem persists, please contact the Office of the Secretary of the Senate Webmaster](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/117/593/140/463/585/729/original/0dd8ba4e8da56964.png)
Interesting oddity: The above post links www . senate . gov and www . warren . senate . gov . When displaying the linked URLs, Ruby Mastodon and its derivatives cut off the www. for readability. However, this is causing people reading the post to type "warren . senate . gov" into an address bar instead of clicking the link. And "warren . senate . gov", no www, seems to turn out to be an invalid domain