Which is, of course, an excellent reason such projects should never be tolerated in the first place. Government-mandated filters simply should not exist. Full stop. It's an easy question: Does the law in question require that access to publicly-available information be blocked in any way? If yes, then it is a bad law.
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#12I tried to look it up, but UK's law is still a mystery for me. Can someone help: what is a definition of ISP in the UK?
Especially: is a VPN provider an ISP?
Additionally, what definition of ISP is used in Mr Cameron's proposal?
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#13I don't know how things are going to change but I ordered Talk Talk a couple of days ago and they only ask you if you want content filter and antivirus filter on; whatever you choose they say you can customise it later in your control panel.
So far I like what I have seen. I just don't want any filter, thanks, and I did't have to say why (ie. porn or anything else).
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#14Us 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 :(
I think cjdns[1] is a step in this direction. You should check it out if you're interested in an encrypted and truly distributed web.
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#15Us 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 :(
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#16Us 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 :(
It's already there, developed by the US military no less. It's called Tor. If the installing and usability was improved it might catch on for normal people concerned about their privacy.
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#17Absolutely no way they'll ship with social networking blocked by default, it'll be dead on arrival. Every household will want social networking, and will enable that if they just skip through and realise they can't get to Facebook. Once they do that the whole systems pointless unless people actually see some benefit.
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#18If you live in the UK, please consider signing the petition to stop the filters: https://submissions.epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/51746.
At the moment, it's sadly languishing at a mere 21,000 signatures. If it reaches 100,000 then that should trigger a parliamentary debate. I'm also going to send an email to my local MP. Does anyone have any other ideas for fighting this censorship?
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#19There's no feasible way of blocking circumvention tools without causing massive collateral damage.
If they block SSH tunnels for instance no sysadmin will be able to do their job. Same for VPN. A lot of people work remotely.
I will laugh my ass off if they try to do that.
At the same time I won't be able to access my VPS anymore :(
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#20As 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…
So you could call this one the China Firewall of Great Britain.