UK Porn Filter Will Censor Other Content Too, ISPs Reveal
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UK Porn Filter Will Censor Other Content Too, ISPs Reveal
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#2Pope is Catholic, Vatican reveals.
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#3First they criticize the Great Firewall of China. Then they start building it themselves. And who better than a Chinese network operator to do it? After all:
"The Public Pledge on Self-Discipline for the Chinese Internet Industry is an agreement between the Chinese internet industry regulator and companies that operate sites in China. In signing the agreement, web companies are pledging to identify and prevent the transmission of information that Chinese authorities deem objectionable, including information that “breaks laws or spreads superstition or obscenity”, or that “may jeopardize state security and disrupt social stability”."
-From Wikipedia
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#5As I've been saying for years, the Great Firewall of China is -- or was -- the prototype.
Look at its early history: Built with "Western" technology and consulting.
Did you think all these firms were creating a one-off?
And, the following observation is perhaps stretching the interpretation a bit (or not), but I find it somewhat ironic that, after all this, it is a Chinese company that is pushing this implementation forward. Use domestic market access to acquire the knowledge (sometimes, by hook or by crook), and then use your control of your own labor market to undersell the competition.
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#6It turns out that the slope was very slippery indeed.
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#7If the block itself is only a technical measure, it only boosts alternative access methods. But if they make it illegal to do things like watch port or download torrents without government permission, like they do now with the requirement to hand over private encryption keys to the officials require them, then GB will become worse than China in the freedom of information flow aspect.
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#8So basically its a business deal between Huawei and the UK and they're using the angle of "Think of the children" to sell the idea.
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#9So what are the speculations on circumvention?
Would an unblocked proxy suffice, or do we think UK internet users would need to purchase a VPN?
Also, is the idea to block porn sites, or any site that contains pornographic content, like NSFW subreddits?
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#10Us hackers need to make a new "web" a web where censorship is not possible and everything is encrypted, a "web" with no single points of failure, a "web" where domains cant snatched or censored, a "web" like the web used to be :(