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Hah, this is weird. I created GAC, and submitted this a few hours ago, but got not much love. And now you have some :) Anyways, the server is having a serious hug of love. Things are slowed down now. Anyways, AMA!
so does this depend on your server? i've read your site - but i'm not clear if this routes traffic through your server or not
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Ironically, my work filters mean I can't access the site. But if it does bypass censorship then it makes a good political point. How much has this cost? How much publicity has it got Cameron? If it can be bypassed without any trouble then it is pure theatre.
Lots and lots of really negative publicity here in the UK. It blocks rape support sites and sexual education websites better than it blocks porn: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/abu...
Why not just opt out of the filter? Or use one of the many smaller ISPs who don't implement the filter in the first place? You don't need plugins/extensions.
IIRC even the small providers have to implement filtering with the IWF blacklist, so there's no way to get a filter-free experience.
Hah, this is weird. I created GAC, and submitted this a few hours ago, but got not much love. And now you have some :) Anyways, the server is having a serious hug of love. Things are slowed down now. Anyways, AMA!
- What proxies are you using? - If you set up your own proxies: How do you handle the costs? - If you use someone elses proxy: How do you make sure they always work for your users? - Does you extension only proxy blocked traffic? How do you know what is blocked? Is there an official list?
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- What proxies are you using? - If you set up your own proxies: How do you handle the costs? - If you use someone elses proxy: How do you make sure they always work for your users? - Does you extension only proxy blocked traffic? How do you know what is blocked? Is there an official list?
I'm using Squid to serve proxies, albeit a modified Squid. On your 3rd point, it has a list, as well a manual activation button. It proxies only blocked traffic.
- Can you tell us how much traffic you had already?
I get the impression that this was created for other, more illegitimate purposes, that has nothing to do with "Cameron's porn blocker"
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I doubt it. Or I'm going to have some trouble. I reckon a large proportion of people will opt out and I wouldn't be surprised if they try to remove the opt out option in the future.
> I reckon a large proportion of people will opt out HAH! I had a friend one day in tears because her bf had some porn on his laptop. She was shocked, outraged etc. She owned a dildo. Some people have horrific double standards, unless people make a stand against censorship (unlikely) or their desire for porn (even less likely). This is only going to get worse.
I think the general consensus of the government right now needs to change, I seem to recall a hacker game from years ago (maybe 'Hacker Evolution') which described in it's prologue: "The world has been divided; governments censor and restrict access to the internet that was, hackers and technologists moved away from traditional means of communication and established the undernet..."
This kind of dystopian path is what we're on. We should not hide, we should not have to. if we do, then law enforcement will go unchecked and start penalizing us for simply hiding our tracks.
I can easily imagine a world in which using Tor becomes illegal, accessing the internet with a non-licensed browser, or having a method of tracing back to the point of origin (behind NAT) for ISP's.
ultimate accountability, ultimate censorship- possibly even having to get some form of license to even get access to the internet.
British people often forget the monopoly BT/Openreach have, it ties in closely to government (probably since they were state owned) it would be very easy for them to enforce these kinds of legislations, and of course, when they do, they'll be doing it under the banner of 'whats best for the public'
They've taken filesharing. They've taken sexual material. -and forced you to identify yourself- They will take more.
there are inherent problems with even identifying yourself like this; what if another extremist party got into power. "those people, those are the perverts, we'll incarcerate them", or, assuming a 21 year old guy grows up and becomes a candidate for prime minister, the current administration could accidentally leak that he bypassed porn filters.
no, hiding should not be the default, patching should not be the solution.
I will fight, I will not stop. and should I lose, I will simply leave this country and it's countrymen. the EU convention lists internet access as a human right.
I find it ironic that we have more censorship now than some known human rights violators.