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We could start by making a browser plugin that lets users report suspected censorship, and provide alternate domains or ip's for the site.
by some1else 16y ago
We could start by making a browser plugin that lets users report suspected censorship, and provide alternate domains or ip's for the site.
- drdaeman 16y agoReplacing one authority (ICANN and their subsidized registrars) with another (plugin authors) is not a real solution. With automated submissions, scammers of all sorts won't take long, trying their best to report that google.com is censored and real Google is now at xxxbestsearchenginexxx.net. A sufficiently large botnet operation is hardly distinguishable from valid mass reports. On the other hand, censors would also be very happy to submit thousands of completely fake reports to give system some hard time trying to find what's really going on. They may go as far as creating WikiLeaks-looking fake sites, containing bogus dummy papers instead of the troublesome content (so having digital signatures on site contents is a must). Building a system, capable to successfully withstand such attacks is extremely hard. And average Aunt Tillie won't install any complicated software or use anything with UI much harder than "Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at wikileaks.com. This site seem to be under the US government censorship, so please click here for the list of mirrors." Which seems to be inherently incompatible with actually required level of security and censorship-resistance.