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> it’s clear that the system is designed so poor or uneducated people would only be able to consume government approved content That's not by design, that's ju
by freeflight 5y ago
> it’s clear that the system is designed so poor or uneducated people would only be able to consume government approved content
That's not by design, that's just the virtue of human ingenuity. Give us something we ain't supposed to do, and people will invest a lot of effort to still make it work.
Case in point; For a while Germany wanted to put Internet filters in place, based on DNS blocks [0]
Trivial to circumvent for anybody remotely familiar with networking, yet seemingly impossible for the vast majority of people who have no expertise in the field.
Was it designed like that to lock out the poor, uneducated, Germans?
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zugangserschwerungsgesetz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zugangserschwerungsgesetz