What's the purpose of Yale censoring certain websites? I find it hilarious that people spend so much money to go to Yale, and some of that money goes to inspecting what they're browsing.
Same could be said of governments and taxes
The Great Firewall of Yale
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If they were only blocking based on IP address then students wouldn't be able to ping the server. So they're blocking on at least the TCP layer. ... not that that constitutes DPI either.
This looks like the block page you get from a Palo Alto firewall. The feature set includes traffic inspection, among many other things. We've got a couple where I work, they are pretty great firewalls actually.
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#15"Universities are a bastion of free speech." LOL.
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#16I expect the official explanation to be something like "we cannot endorse an unofficial service that might give misleading information to our students."
Every censor does it from an honest desire to keep this terribly misleading information away from the unknowing masses.
I don't think Yale is blocking the service in a conspiratorial effort to stymie students, but from a not well thought out desire to babysit.
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#17Note that this site is also accessible at http://coursetable.com
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#18There is no way that a valid copyright claim can be made over the underlying data because it is a statement of fact. Such a work is not eligible for copyright protection.
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#20If it were only deep packet inspection, the solution would be simply to prefix https:// and be done with it. As other posters have remarked, I suspect the article means an IP based block.
That is until Yale than set themselves up to forcefully man in the middle all outgoing https connections.