@gamingonlinux Kind of not surprising though, is it? Like, completely par for the course.
I have noticed some captive portals blocking mastodon.social since the birdsite transition too. Claiming some BS I should have screenshotted.
The powers that be really don't want competition AFAICT.
Controlling a narrative is at least as old as Hearst, arguably, much older.
I guess we all get to see how the non consensually red teaming goes against a distributed decentralized FediVerse in the process?