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You must be joking. It will take about 5 minutes for technology to render this obsolete. Authoritarians always use innocuous sounding reasons to implement censo

You must be joking. It will take about 5 minutes for technology to render this obsolete. Authoritarians always use innocuous sounding reasons to implement censorship. It starts with pirates, then onto dissenters.

shoulderfake 5y ago
Or this is just another scam to hand out a big $ contract to some IT consultant to implement this.
duckfang 5y ago
100% correct. This at best will only stop casual and inadvertent clicks to piracy sites. And harder yet is to define piracy itself - Should the Canadian government be protecting copyright not under its purview? How about US copyright? Or European? What about Chinese copyright? Will the Canadian government protect from corporate pirates that pirate the Linux kernel for use in hardware where they do not release source under GPL terms? (Likely not) And all of their blocking measures cannot stop at "Stop piracy". We see what happens in schools - all blocking engines ALSO have to block VPN, Proxy, Tor, and "proxy avoidance" to even approach effectiveness... And those also are easy to bypass. Usually, what these kinds of laws are for are as a "feel good", and for shoveling money to someone's pet company for a lackluster "blocking" solution.
barbazoo 5y ago
Except that nothing has been proposed here. This is a RFP.
neither_color 5y ago
China's great firewall got us shadowsocks and v2ray. Shadowsocks is interesting because, if I understand it correctly, its obfuscation (plugin?) method makes the firewall think I'm browsing github or some other innocuous website I set. I wonder what new advancements in censorship circumvention we'll get when the western firewalls go up. Never mind overt talks of combatting piracy or protecting children or whatnot. That's where announcements like this are headed.
- LinuxBender 5y ago
  Is shadowsocks still actively maintained? Last I saw their repo was abandoned, but maybe someone forked it and I missed it.

shoulderfake 5y ago

Or this is just another scam to hand out a big $ contract to some IT consultant to implement this.

duckfang 5y ago

100% correct. This at best will only stop casual and inadvertent clicks to piracy sites. And harder yet is to define piracy itself - Should the Canadian government be protecting copyright not under its purview? How about US copyright? Or European? What about Chinese copyright? Will the Canadian government protect from corporate pirates that pirate the Linux kernel for use in hardware where they do not release source under GPL terms? (Likely not) And all of their blocking measures cannot stop at "Stop piracy". We see what happens in schools - all blocking engines ALSO have to block VPN, Proxy, Tor, and "proxy avoidance" to even approach effectiveness... And those also are easy to bypass. Usually, what these kinds of laws are for are as a "feel good", and for shoveling money to someone's pet company for a lackluster "blocking" solution.

barbazoo 5y ago

Except that nothing has been proposed here. This is a RFP.

neither_color 5y ago

China's great firewall got us shadowsocks and v2ray. Shadowsocks is interesting because, if I understand it correctly, its obfuscation (plugin?) method makes the firewall think I'm browsing github or some other innocuous website I set. I wonder what new advancements in censorship circumvention we'll get when the western firewalls go up. Never mind overt talks of combatting piracy or protecting children or whatnot. That's where announcements like this are headed.

LinuxBender 5y ago
Is shadowsocks still actively maintained? Last I saw their repo was abandoned, but maybe someone forked it and I missed it.