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The start? Cleanfeed has been running for 10 years already: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleanfeed_(content_blocking_system) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleanf

• jstanley 13y ago
  Plus, last year we started to see filtering of file-sharing websites: the Pirate Bay is now blocked on every major UK ISP.
  • blueskin_ 13y ago
    ...as well as about 4 proxies out of thousands. Censorship never works because it's so easy to turn it onto a game of whack-a-mole with next to no money and effort even aside from all the other flaws.
    • vidarh 13y ago
      And it's also taught anyone who use TPB in the UK that the first thing to do if you can't get to a site is to search for proxies. Every extra hurdle makes people better at avoiding the next one...
      • aaren 13y ago
        I'd like to think that the uk web filter and the wider government surveillance narrative of the past few months is actually a ploy by our leaders to slowly educate the public in circumventing censorship and to stimulate the development of a free internet - like the Socratic method, but for culture. Then it gets cloudy outside and I stop thinking that.
  • DanBC 13y ago
    At least those blocks go through a court process and a judge has to approve them being blocked.