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Old 05-13-2011, 08:47 AM   #1
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Post Americans face piracy website blocking


"Websites that link to pirated music and movies or sell counterfeit goods could soon be blocked in America."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13387795
 
Old 05-13-2011, 04:50 PM   #2
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WTF? What next sites like infowars.net that don't agree with the government?

So much for the land of the free.

Good thing we have things like tor, nifty firefox extensions like:
MAFIAAFire.com - http://www.mafiaafire.com/

and JonDoFox – anonymous and secure web surfing - http://anonymous-proxy-servers.net/en/jondofox.html
 
Old 05-14-2011, 06:09 AM   #3
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I wonder if they will block file sharing sites as well.

I doubt they will block infowars (because it's probably run by the CIA), but certainly this is just a reason and legislation for more censorship.
 
Old 05-14-2011, 07:34 AM   #4
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So much for the land of the free.
We are the "land of the free" only so long as we have just laws. If a law is unjust strive to change it.
 
Old 05-22-2011, 09:56 PM   #5
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WTF? What next sites like infowars.net that don't agree with the government?

So much for the land of the free.

Good thing we have things like tor, nifty firefox extensions like:
MAFIAAFire.com - http://www.mafiaafire.com/

and JonDoFox – anonymous and secure web surfing - http://anonymous-proxy-servers.net/en/jondofox.html
Just a small note. Although I don't really think the MAFIAAfire people are going to do anything fishy, I don't completely trust them for essentially acting as a dns redundancy. There's a rewrite of their add-on here https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fireice/ that has the alternative ips hardcoded. And there's something potentially creepy. Quoting from the add-on page

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Also, check the MafiaaFire Redirector Privacy Policy:

[..] in future we might collect some IP data when you ping our site for updates.
Other than that, well said.
 
  


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