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muriel_volestrangler

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2. OK, can someone in the US test this for me, please?

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Thu Feb 19, 2026, 03:53 AM

Yesterday

The US government homepage for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration - https://www.samhsa.gov - give me, un the UK, a "403 Forbidden" reply. I can't tell if they've disabled it just for people outside the USA (which would be the censorship they claim to hate, done by the US government), or if they've just neglected the site for everyone, since they don't care about such things any more.

archive.org has been getting errors for about a month - here's their record:

https://web.archive.org/web/20260000000000*/https://www.samhsa.gov/

One of the last ones that worked for them was:

https://web.archive.org/web/20260116032408/https://www.samhsa.gov/

Can anyone here access the plain https://www.samhsa.gov page? That's what Google gives me as their home page.

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Exclusive: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere [View all] BumRushDaShow Yesterday OP

This is about Facefook et al, nothing else. Its no different than countries buying sanctioned materials Cheezoholic Yesterday #1

OK, can someone in the US test this for me, please? muriel_volestrangler Yesterday #2

https://www.samhsa.gov page opens fine for me....lovely pic of RFK jr among others msongs Yesterday #3

OK, thanks - looks like they are censoring it for overseas use, then muriel_volestrangler Yesterday #4

My students got 403 errors today trying to access some sites that worked fine last year. Igel 8 hrs ago #9

what a spokesman for substance abuse! rampartd Yesterday #5

I clicked https://www.samhsa.gov and it loaded for me. /nt bucolic_frolic 21 hrs ago #6

Internet domain blocking dude in Iran... Layzeebeaver 20 hrs ago #7

Maybe they can stop IMGURL blocking UK users from viewing all images and videos it hosts Emrys 11 hrs ago #8