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It’s not deliberate, but it is stupid. Now that I’ve been able to view the real Internet again (within certain technical limitations; access comes and goes), I’ve found that neither the Phil Soc site nor the downloads section of the pgn mentor site have vanished. Both have almost certainly been blocked not because the imperial government hates the Phil Soc or chess games in pgn format, but because they’ve been taken out by the primitive Third-World software which does the blocking. The Phil Soc has probably been whacked because it looks like Tibetan or is a word in Tibetan. It’s merely the usual abbreviation for the Philological Society , which has no particular interest in the Empire or countries occupied by the Empire. If you’re one of the Empire’s Internet snoops (I expect you can surf wherever you please), check out the site. Harmless, as you’ll see, and blocked without justification. As for the pgn mentor site, I can only guess at that one. I suspected that pgn was the...