TPSA/Orange and GIMP, or a word on 5 users
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Some might remember how a few years ago biggest Polish ISP mistakenly blocked GIMP’s website for their users.
Today I took part in a meeting on net neutrality, content blocking and privacy, within the framework of workshops run by Polish Ministry of Administration and Digitalization. The topic of informing on blocks engaged by the ISPs to protect their networks came up, obviously the ISPs are fighting tooth and nail against that.
I reminded the representatives present about how Telekomunikacja Polska (now owned by Orange) blocked GIMP’s website, and how such an information would be instrumental for server’s admins to solve the problem on their side or at least know what’s going on.
As a reply, Mr Tomasz Piłat, Orange rep, said the following:
And all 5 GIMP users were outraged
After which another Orange rep requested “some respect” towards their company.