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- What proxies are you using? - If you set up your own proxies: How do you handle the costs? - If you use someone elses proxy: How do you make sure they alway
by biafra 13y ago
- What proxies are you using?
- If you set up your own proxies: How do you handle the costs?
- If you use someone elses proxy: How do you make sure they always work for your users?
- Does you extension only proxy blocked traffic? How do you know what is blocked? Is there an official list?
- nubela 13y agoI'm using Squid to serve proxies, albeit a modified Squid. On your 3rd point, it has a list, as well a manual activation button. It proxies only blocked traffic.
- biafra 13y ago- So traffic must be really cheap, where you host your proxies? How much is it? - Can you tell us how much traffic you had already?
- 3838 13y agothe cost and the possibility of prosecution for supplying illegal material are two obvious downsides to this - keep in mind that uk law makes bestiality porn highly illegal for instance, whereas it's legal or easily available in other parts of the world - and also something that people are sometimes curious about
- belorn 13y agoThis UK filter is explicitly not about blocking illegal material, but to block legal website which are deemed by the government as inappropriate for watching. Its an requirement put on ISP by the government, and covers porn, music videos, magazines and newspapers. For now, the focus seems to be on the first item, but the Bailey Review want much much more. Illegal material has been blocked since 2004 and onward by most UK ISP's, mostly under the umbrella argument of stopping child pornography. The Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Uni... can provide much more details, like the desire to block content ranging from Fashion sites to those describing Alcohol.
- 3838 13y agothe problem i'm describing is that some sites are legal overseas but not here - if this proxy also bypasses cleanfeed there could be problems - well i imagine what would happen is that it'd get added to the list of banned urls
- pbhjpbhj 13y ago>This UK filter is explicitly not about blocking illegal material, but to block legal website which are deemed by the government as inappropriate for watching. // It's not about blocking legal websites it's about filtering content for general users and allowing continued unfiltered access for those who wish to have it. It's like putting plastic wrap on pornography magazines in Newsagents - it doesn't stop you getting it it just stops it being seen by those who don't want to [or can't] purchase it. You may say that's semantics but if you can still access the material legally I don't think you can call it blocked. There are blocked sites too but they've been legally judged to be contributing to illegal/unlawful activity in the UK - eg ThePirateBay.
- westi 13y agoHow are you going to handle the eventual addition of your proxies IP addresses to the block list? It feels like this will quickly become a game of cat and mouse with the block list managers.
- 3838 13y agoi suppose looking at what people do in china is an idea - iirc the filtering equipment is going to be supplied by huawei who also make the chinese great firewall stuff
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