a333
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Re: Great Firewall of China blocks most of what it wants blocked
Yes, in case you haven't noticed, those can be bypassed in about 5 minutes by any teenager with a brain slightly larger than a peanut... it's called Tor, or an ssh/vpn tunnel. |
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| Another thing he likely doesn't know of is the project by the Citizen Lab of the University of Toronto, Psiphon. Though that's mainly directed at web access, and not p2p.
But anyway, VPNs, proxies, and so on are going to get extremely popular down under once the filters are implemented.
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Both have their limitations, and also presume that there are countries that do not participate in the restrictions. When even countries that have fairly robust free speech traditions (like the US) can prosecute you for publishing software that might be used by a third party for illegal purposes (what was that that the NRA used to say about guns?) then it's a logical step to banning the methods used to subvert the blocks.
Also, the Internet is about making information freely available from as many people to as many people as possible. But if I need to jump through hoops (use Tor or whatever) to get to site A, whereas site B just works with my browser, then many, many people just won't bother and will for all intents and purposes lose access to site A.
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