<p>This community tracks restricted access resources (generally websites) that are <strong>supposed</strong> to serve taxpayers and the general public, but they fail in that duty by imposing arbitrary restrictions on access. This is where we document these cases.</p>
<p>Most often, it is the Tor community who is marginalised by incompetantly implemented infosystems. This community will be mostly littered with references to tor-hostile public resources to a fatiquing extent, but this is expected. It is not necessarily limited to Tor. Any demographic of people who are refused service would have a relevant story here. E.g. someone traveling outside their country and being denied access to a homeland website on the basis of presumed IP geolocation.</p>
<p>This is very closely related to the <a href="https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/digi_fiefdom_required" rel="nofollow">!digi_fiefdom_required@lemmy.sdf.org</a> community. But there are some nuanced differences. Not all fiefdoms are necessarily always restricted access. E.g. some rare Facebook pages are reachable to non-FB users.</p>
<p>And not all manifestations of restricted access entail a fiefdom. E.g. it’s increasingly common for a gov website to block Tor visitors at the firewall without involving a digital fiefdom.</p>
<p>Cases of <strong>Cloudflare</strong>, <strong>Facebook</strong>, <strong>LinkedIn</strong> and the like can be crossposted in many situations. They are a fiefdom walled garden and also commonly configured to restrict access. IDK… use your best judgement. Might suffice to just post in <a href="https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/digi_fiefdom_required" rel="nofollow">!digi_fiefdom_required@lemmy.sdf.org</a> in those cases.</p>
<p>Also related: <a href="https://sopuli.xyz/c/netneutrality" rel="nofollow">!netneutrality@sopuli.xyz</a></p>
<p><strong>Scope and rules:</strong></p>
<p>What is <em><strong>not</strong></em> relevant here:</p>
<ul>
<li>NGOs</li>
<li>non-profits</li>
<li>anything in the private sector</li>
</ul>
<p>This community is focused on tax-funded government programs and services like public education, social services, voter reg, courts, legal statutes, etc. NGOs and non-profits may exist for the pubic benefit, but if they are not funded by force (taxation) then they are not really relevant here.</p>
<p>Recommended style:</p>
<ul>
<li>the title should mention the jurisdiction (state/province and/or country)</li>
</ul>