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The Register tends to use a distinctly UK style of criticism - much like Private Eye at times. It tends not to translate particularly well to no-UK readers who
by mortov 13y ago
The Register tends to use a distinctly UK style of criticism - much like Private Eye at times. It tends not to translate particularly well to no-UK readers who think it is just being frivilous or outrageously sensationalist.
However, there is a serious point here. This 'filter' is being sold as protecting everyone (expecially the children) by most reporting sources. The Register has done some more in-depth analysis and found that far from simply blocking porn (which some people do want) it blocks additional legitimately use-able systems like proxies and anonimizers which were not mentioned in the original debate and show a distinct 'creep' in the implementation.
It is not clear you can actually use proxies to access blocked IPs as the whole point of the filtering is to stop access to proxies (as well as porn). This is the creep and the point I submitted the article.
I'm not sure what an 'infowar' is (I've not google'd that yet) so I'm not sure if that is a real thing or not. But feature creep and ever increasing control of internet (and hence information) access is real and something which should be discussed and debated much more intelligently and maturely than it is currently being.
- DanBC 13y agoI am a British reader. I subscribe to Private Eye. The Reg is no Private Eye. This article in particular is semi-coherent. It manages to discuss several different, distinct, regulatory mechanisms and filters and mashes the results together as some kind of Orwellian nightmare. > It is not clear you can actually use proxies to access blocked IPs as the whole point of the filtering is to stop access to proxies (as well as porn). This is the creep and the point I submitted the article. Exactly the confusion I mean. Some proxies are blocked by court order. This is different to the porn filter. You can't opt out of court-ordered filters. (You could use one of the ISPs that aren't caught by the court orders - I think only 5 ISPs have to implement the court ordered filters). Complaining about the government mandated porn-filter when it's not doing what you're complaining about is sub-optimal. > But feature creep There is no feature creep. These are different things. They're just happening at the same time.