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and what if you live in a country that blocks that url-shortening service hosted by the pirate bay or wikileaks?
by there 18y ago
and what if you live in a country that blocks that url-shortening service hosted by the pirate bay or wikileaks?
- endtime 18y agoWell, then you've got bigger problems than URL shortening. I don't mean to be flippant; if you're in that kind of country then maybe you can't even trust your normal DNS.
- there 18y agomy point (and i think that of the person you originally replied to) was that if you have to go through a url-shortening proxy to get to a page that is not blocked, but the url-shortening site is, you will be blocked from accessing a lot of content simply because you don't know its real url.
- endtime 18y agoAh, perhaps I misunderstood. I thought political censorship pressure meant the government pressuring the URL-shortening service to change the target of short URLs that people try to use to point to politically disagreeable content.
- dkasper 18y agoOr if your school's webfilter blocks tinypic and some of the other url shorteners. It's one of the most annoying things about trying to read tweets or reddit these days.