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No strip today, overstepped the line. Google can fill in the gaps..

It’s not your PC (or the non responsive ISP DNS server I thought I was dealing with (unless Google’s DNS servers have the same issue…)).

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It’s been down for ~18 hours now.

https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/dilbert.com.html

Hope this helps…

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Interesting…it was in the Arizona Republic today. I didn’t think it was any worse than some of the previous ones.

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Dilbert’ author claims ‘woke’ mob is coming for his comic strip as it’s removed from 77 newspapers

“Dilbert” author Scott Adams, who has been drawing the comic since 1989, said the strip that pokes fun at office culture was wiped from nearly 77 newspapers.

Lee Enterprises, which owns nearly 100 newspaper companies in the US, terminated the contract with “Dilbert” for unknown reasons, reports Fox News.

“It was part of a larger overhaul, I believe, of comics, but why they decided what was in and what was out, that’s not known to anybody except them, I guess,” said Adams, who noted it coincidentally happened after he incorporated “wokeness” into the stories…

* Maybe that is the reason why Dilbert.com is down/cancelled.

https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1572327918344474627

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That was back in September.  Let’s not speculate when it could just be a server issue.

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I did a bit more delving at the time, mainly looking up the IP the server usually had (173.245.59.155) , noting its run through cloudflare so checked bleepingcomputer as if that had issues they’d have noted it.) In failing to ping everything important that noted one of my ISP’s DNS servers wasn’t replying either so I set up google and tried again (to find 8.8.8.8 was fine but 4.4.4.4 was off.. otherwise no change to the absent DNS entry..).

A date selective search had led to this info (as the US side papers won’t let content out..) – only a couple days old.. the strip which introduced the problem was back in September though.. does it really take “months” for news to travel across the pond?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11235995/Dilbert-comic-strip-canned-77-newspapers-artist-Scott-Adams-included-anti-woke-plotlines.html

If you want to read that better be quick..

 

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oldguy wrote:

A date selective search had led to this info (as the US side papers won’t let content out..) – only a couple days old.. the strip which introduced the problem was back in September though.. does it really take “months” for news to travel across the pond?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11235995/Dilbert-comic-strip-canned-77-newspapers-artist-Scott-Adams-included-anti-woke-plotlines.html

That article is dated two months ago; same date as the NY Post article quoted and linked above.

Windows 11 Pro version 22H2 build 22621.1485 + Microsoft 365 + Edge

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gocomics.com is down too

“The requested service is temporarily unavailable. It is either overloaded or under maintenance. Please try later.”

Arcamax comics website, which sends out the daily Dilbert emails, is working just fine.

https://www.arcamax.com/thefunnies/dilbert/

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