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  • Remember to renew your support for the EFF. They take on some interesting cases
    by nadermx
  • Can someone explain why it wouldn't work to have porn companies use only certain domains, and filter based on those domains, if people are so intent on blocking it?
    by forshaper
  • > It even went so far as to prohibit websites from offering instructions on how to use a VPN to bypass these checks

    How is that not a blatant first amendment violation?

    by rhcom2
  • Fascism is on the march. Dirty pictures aren't the real reason governments want this level of control over the internet. You can be sure that we'll see worse. Glad we won this battle.
    by kramer2718
  • "As we've said time and time again: the internet will always route around censorship."

    It won't route around self-censorship that arises out of surveillance

    Nor will it take a stand against SNI which is a dead simple means of implementing censorship that's in widespread use every day for years

    by 1vuio0pswjnm7
  • The church of LDS is no stranger to technical impossibilities
    by JSR_FDED
  • >As we’ve said time and time again: the internet will always route around censorship.

    Is this still true, or has it become a truism? It seems nations like Iran and China (and events like Kashmir come to mind) have progressed the state-of-the-art and playbook to where we can't actually say it definitively will route around it.

    Now seeing that the US and EU are flirting with these similar restrictions it's making me wonder how we'll be able to keep hold of these principles.

    Maybe my concern with that adage is ultimately its passive voice, since it takes 'active' action by people to give us those options, and will probably take more actions by more people to keep it alive now.

    by usernomdeguerre
  • > platforms are left with an impossible choice: completely block all VPN traffic nationwide or withdraw access from Utah entirely

    Is it even possible to reliably know that a connection is from a VPN? Anyone can proxy through a random hosting provider.

    by SoftTalker

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