Wired on Defeating the Olympics Censorship

An anonymous reader writes "As discussed on Slashdot recently, Internet footage of Olympics events are being censored for US citizens. Wired.com is covering the issue in a recent story, discussing ways of defeating these measures. Duane Wessels, developer of the Squid caching proxy, and Len Sassaman, Mixmaster anonymity software author, are interviewed. Are they correct? Is geolocation content censorship impossible?"

Comments

Re:Islamic Censorship.

[Abcd1234]

And, yet again, you failed to read the first sentence of my post again, you friggin' tool. Let me highlight my point for you:

"THE Greek organizers of this summer's topless Olympics, which began in Athens yesterday..."

My point, you blind twit, is that you are applying your own set of values to Islamic culture. If it were the case that all Olympians couldn't wear clothing above their waste, for whatever reason, the events wouldn't be broadcast in the Western world (particularly the United States) due to the fear of being exposed to images of naked breasts. Yet, for some reason, that is okay... however, what these Islamic countries are doing is only an extrapolation of the beliefs of people in the Western world (rather than just breasts, they feel the entire female body is enticing to males, and thus men need to be protected from it).

Of course, you may not agree with this (and I feel the hysteria about breasts in the Western world is more than a little silly), however, judging an entire culture based solely on your own values is silly and narrow minded.

There, is that clear enough for you?

Re:licensing aside they still have censorship

[Mike Hawk]

I can't answer your trite question, but will point out the irony that your post is by far the most judgemental attached to this story.

Perhaps the inverse is actually true. That other peoples have been judging Americans (As a whole no less! If we were all of one race this would amount to racism!) for so long that some of you have started to believe the hype. And from your AC follow up it appears you also think your position is beyond reproach. Irony, thy name is NeedleSurder, and thats why I love you. Is there somewhere we could meet to hug?

Re:Dear smug self-important Canadian Prick,

[Simon Brooke]

You see anti-Americanism where there isn't any. If I dislike the way your media companies deal with things how does that make me anti-American? What if I hate how my Prime Minister deals with something, would that make me anti-Canadian?

Surely if someone is anti-American they must necessarily be anti-Canadian (and anti-Brazilian as well), since both Canada and Brazil are part of America. Or was he just using the blinkered, parochial view that the United States were sole owners of the entire continent, and if so where did he think Canada was?