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Are we trying to emulate China or Iran? Obviously a block like this for any tech-savvy person is absolutely meaningless.
by anons2011 14y ago
Are we trying to emulate China or Iran? Obviously a block like this for any tech-savvy person is absolutely meaningless.
- af3 14y agoyep! tunnelr?
- viraptor 14y agoThat's advanced technology! Not needed really: google: site:thepiratebay.se windows Cached site from google includes the magnet link.
- rmc 14y agoThe UK has also censored Wikipedia in the past.
- dabeeeenster 14y agoReally? Link?
- beedogs 14y agoThis may be what he is referring to: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20081207/1805293043.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20081207/1805293043.shtml
- njs12345 14y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Watch_Foundation_and_Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Watch_Foundation_and_W...
- jentulman 14y agoSaying 'The UK' is a little over the top possibly, I think this is a reference to this, http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/British_ISPs_restrict_access_to_Wikipedia_amid_child_pornography_allegations http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/British_ISPs_restrict_access_to_...
- mansr 14y agoProbably referring to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Watch_Foundation_and_Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Watch_Foundation_and_W...
- anoother 14y ago[citation needed]
- rmc 14y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Watch_Foundation_and_Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Watch_Foundation_and_W...
- nagrom 14y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Watch_Foundation_and_Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Watch_Foundation_and_W... That's the wikipedia link to the time that the unelected committee called the internet Watch Foundation managed to cut off access to Wikipedia after they judged that legally-available album art on one band's entry constituted child pornography and summarily blocked wikipedia.
- m0nty 14y agoCensorship is a bit like taxation: knowledgeable people will tend to find ways around it, but they are not the majority. As long as the majority complies, the politicians won't be too bothered. Similar with the BPI (and vested interests in the US). All they want to do is weaken file-sharing networks by stopping PCs becoming nodes on them, to remove their critical mass.
- fromhet 14y agoWould it be ok to stop a newspaper printing and qr-links to copyrighted material illegally? Is it all right to cencor child pornography on the internet? If it's ok to cencor one illegal thing, why not another?