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Sunday, August 31st, 2025

Problems accessing Bluesky social media in Shreveport with Comcast

Hello,

I'm a church volunteer in NW Louisiana (Shreveport, Louisiana).  However, my IP address location for our church's internet through Comcast reports our location as Bentonia, Mississippi.

This causes a problem for anyone in our area using Comcast because Bluesky is not providing access to their services in Mississippi due to their state law restricting internet access to social media platforms.  More details on the Bluesky blog site:

https://bsky.social/about/blog/08-22-2025-mississippi-hb1126

I am able to bypass this filtering through a VPN but I suspect that other Comcast users in the Shreveport metropolitan area may be denied access to Bluesky through this error by Comcast.

Thanks for whatever help you can offer from the Comcast ISP provider side.

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13 days ago

 

All-Souls-IT-Support I'm sorry to hear your church's internet location is showing up incorrectly. I know that's frustrating. The location you're seeing is based on information from other companies that map internet addresses, not from Comcast. Because we don't control that information, the best way to get it fixed is to contact those companies directly to have them update the location. In the meantime, using a VPN is a great way to get around the issue.