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Re: The Free Internet Project

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Post by shawabawa3 »

gexcolo wrote: post #52

The United Kingdom is colored Yellow, yet there is Internet censorship in the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Uni... The description mentions the ISP-controlled, opt-in "filtering" plans, but not the state-mandated no-opt-out censorship of an indeterminate number of websites (the lists are not public)

The state mandated no-opt-out censorship appears to still be the choice of the ISP.

At home, using virginmedia I can't access the pirate bay. At work (unknown ISP), I can

Re: The Free Internet Project

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

at-fates-hands wrote: post #17
xnull wrote: post #5

This is interesting. Allow me to provide some counterpoints to the bullet points listed for a few (major) countries. China: * The Great Firewall of China blocks people's access to many websites, e.g., Facebook, Google. * Government engages in extensive censorship especially related to political organizing or protests. * Foreign social media apps are banned. Users must use real names on social media. The Great Firewal…

>>>> Just this past year the CIA (under USAID) pretended to be a grassroots movement on Twitter served 'news' critical of the Cuban regime that nearly caused a Cuban uprising. Is this a bad thing? This is just one of the double standards I see people touting. They want every country to enjoy all the freedoms we have and none of the oppressive regimes these people live under. Yet these same people are highly critical…

The problem I have with those practices is that they all happen in secret - so that the US can deny their involvement if, for example, an uprising goes out of hand and people die by the dozens. I'm all in favor of getting rid of oppressive regimes and such, and I approve of the people living in said regimes standing up for themselves, but I don't like how the US's involvement is all under cover and in secret, or why it's only the US doing those things (apparently).

Re: The Free Internet Project

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Post by undefined0 »

shawabawa3 wrote: post #61
gexcolo wrote: post #52

The United Kingdom is colored Yellow, yet there is Internet censorship in the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Uni... The description mentions the ISP-controlled, opt-in "filtering" plans, but not the state-mandated no-opt-out censorship of an indeterminate number of websites (the lists are not public)

The state mandated no-opt-out censorship appears to still be the choice of the ISP. At home, using virginmedia I can't access the pirate bay. At work (unknown ISP), I can

In the UK, they have censored filestube, took down filecrop and others. Why I mention this instead of TPB? Well, filestube, at the time of the censorship, didn't encourage copyright infringement, it litterly was just a search engine for file host links. The excuse they gave for censoring it was that they couldn't keep up with the takedown notices. Imagine if they applied that logic to Google.

Re: The Free Internet Project

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Post by undefined0 »

lukasm wrote: post #27

There is a lot freedom in Poland, only because our retarded government has figure out yet how powerful internet is.

Poland actually hosts a lot of the popular file related websites because it's "untouchable" being located in Poland for such websites. Zippyshare, Filestube, Torrentz.eu, etc. Maybe Poland doesn't clamp down on such sites for economic reasons, and the reason the USA isn't forcing Poland to takedown the websites is because they need Poland since they're strategically needed to combat Russia. Just my theory.

Re: The Free Internet Project

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Post by xnull »

xnull wrote: post #48
allemagne wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>The blocking of Facebook and Google is directly related to PRISM, social contagion theory, international surveillance, and weaponized media. Google wasn't blocked in China until the company refused to censor their search results back in 2010. Facebook wasn't blocked until Uygher activists started using it as a communications network during riots back in 2009. Social networks that allow the government unlimited power…

If you remember in 2010 China hacked into Google's infrastructure and gained access to the interface and databases set up for US intelligence surveillance. China can and does filter content at a packet level and TLS 'strong encryption' doesn't protect you when CAs are both owned by the government, proprietary Chinese drivers run on Operating Systems, the large companies provide hardware backdoor access to the governm…

This should not have been downvoted.

"The company, which in 2010 blamed China for an attack on its computer networks, said it recently discovered the Gmail campaign, which "appears to originate from Jinan, China," and targeted specific individuals." - http://americanpowerblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/china-hacks-go...

"Chinese hackers who breached Google’s servers several years ago gained access to a sensitive database with years’ worth of information about U.S. surveillance targets, according to current and former government officials." - http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/chines...

Re: The Free Internet Project

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Post by sarciszewski »

alphydan wrote: post #15
sarciszewski wrote: post #2

I look forward to the day the entire map is green. (Even if it never happens, it's something to work towards.)

for us colorblind, Russia, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan & Company aready are very very close to it. :)

Hah. Sorry to hear that.
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