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Go away Cameron – Bypass UK's porn filter

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Re: Go away Cameron – Bypass UK's porn filter

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Post by westi »

nubela wrote: post #20
biafra wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

- 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.

How are you going to handle the eventual addition of your proxies IP addresses to the block list?

It feels like this will quickly become a game of cat and mouse with the block list managers.

Re: Go away Cameron – Bypass UK's porn filter

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Post by 3838 »

westi wrote: post #51
nubela wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

How are you going to handle the eventual addition of your proxies IP addresses to the block list? It feels like this will quickly become a game of cat and mouse with the block list managers.

i suppose looking at what people do in china is an idea - iirc the filtering equipment is going to be supplied by huawei who also make the chinese great firewall stuff

Re: Go away Cameron – Bypass UK's porn filter

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Post by belorn »

3838 wrote: post #35
nubela wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

the cost and the possibility of prosecution for supplying illegal material are two obvious downsides to this - keep in mind that uk law makes bestiality porn highly illegal for instance, whereas it's legal or easily available in other parts of the world - and also something that people are sometimes curious about

This UK filter is explicitly not about blocking illegal material, but to block legal website which are deemed by the government as inappropriate for watching. Its an requirement put on ISP by the government, and covers porn, music videos, magazines and newspapers. For now, the focus seems to be on the first item, but the Bailey Review want much much more.

Illegal material has been blocked since 2004 and onward by most UK ISP's, mostly under the umbrella argument of stopping child pornography. The Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Uni... can provide much more details, like the desire to block content ranging from Fashion sites to those describing Alcohol.

Re: Go away Cameron – Bypass UK's porn filter

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Post by IanCal »

dijit wrote: post #30

As much as this is a brilliant idea (opting out could possibly be recorded) 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 commu…

> the EU convention lists internet access as a human right.

They're not stopping you from accessing the internet, they're essentially just giving people access to filtering software.

Re: Go away Cameron – Bypass UK's porn filter

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Post by adnam »

nubela wrote: post #2

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!

@nubela: if this service can be used to bypass BBC content restrictions, you're going to have a bad time. A lot of BBC content can only be viewed within the UK, so if you can use GAC to access this content abroad, the following will happen:

- they can contact nominet to get your personal data

- you will likely get a letter from their lawyer

- you may get your .co.uk domain taken away

- you may be asked to hand over your entire database of users

- you may be sued for damages.

IANAL, just FYI.

Re: Go away Cameron – Bypass UK's porn filter

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Post by moocowduckquack »

darkbot wrote: post #47

You can't beat politics with technology http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-11/18/peter-sunde-h...

Political change is often forshadowed by technological revolutions. The mechanisation of agriculture, for instance, had a major influence on the decline of serfdom.

Also, certain technologies have an obviously direct form of political influence, like the AK-47.

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