technical solution for censorship [was: UK internet filtering]

[Benjamin S.]

Am Montag, den 08.12.2008, 16:21 +0100 schrieb Sven Anderson:
> Am 08.12.2008 um 14:05 schrieb Benjamin S.:

> > I think it's time to find a better technical solution to deal with
> > censorship in different countries.

> Technical solutions to circumvent censorship are welcome of course.  
> But don't forget that Tor is designed to be an anonymity tool, not an  
> anti-censorship tool. 

You mean anti-censorship is not the goal of the TOR-project?

> At the moment I see it as the responsibility of  
> the user to choose an appropriate exit-node when he/she suspects  
> censorship.

This will only work as long as you can count censored ressources on the
fingers of one hand, otherwise it will become to complex.

> Of course you could use the exit-policies to publish the censorship  
> for each exit node, but that would result in the directories to hold a  
> list of all blocked IPs for each ISP, what would impair performance I  
> guess.

That depends on how big the list would grow. Probably it would make
sense to put these information in a different directory so you can
enable or disable separatley.

Regards,
Benjamin.
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