Will ISP Web Content Filtering Continue To Grow?

unixluv writes to tell us that another ISP is testing web content filtering and content substitution software. One example sees a system message that is pre-pended to an existing web page. While it seems innocent enough, is this the wave of the future? Will your ISP censor or alter your web experience at will? There have been many instances of content filtering lately and it seems to be a popular idea on the other side of the fence.

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Fuck You America!

[Matthew Jenner]

I'm 24 years old. I don't want to go through the next 50 years of my life living in an international air of worry and uncertainty. I don't want to live in a permanent state of fear, generated by a megalomaniacal American government taking advantage of the majority low IQ populous' capacity for being brainwashed.

I don't want to live like Israel, fighting militant Muslims round every corner. The problem of Muslim extremists exists and needs to be dealt with, not encouraged by invading innocent countries and waging war on people who have done nothing to deserve it. I want my children to grow up in a world free from military oppression and I want a government that understands that the wars of the future are guerrilla ones which can never be won, even if they are waged for noble purposes (which theirs never are).

The world is fucked up enough as it is. The food chain has been poisoned so badly the average human is full of chemicals normally found in plastics and toxic waste. I'm sick of global warning and environmental damage to the planet and the fact the all this time the greenies were right. I'm sick of America being the biggest wilful contributor to the pollution of the planet.

I'm sick of an American school system that produces children who are brought up to believe that America IS the world and anything that goes on outside is irrelevant. Children so stupid they think America invented the Internet, computer, motor car, light bulb, telephone etc ad infinitum....

The Internet or it's successor is the future of entertainment and I'm sick of stupid low IQ, ignorant Americans infecting every corner of it with their insular, jingoistic mindsets, their whiny voices and manifestations of their low self esteem driven by the fact that despite it being their turn as the world's super power, no one actually takes them seriously or gives them the respect that the British or the Ancient Greeks got because a superpower best known for producing mass produced crap is never going to get the respect that one who gave the world Shakespeare, culture, philosophy or mathematics will get.

I'm sick of hypocrisy and two facedness. I'm sick of Gangsta Rap and hamburgers, Political Correctness and TV programmes that begin with 'When' and end in 'go bad and attack people'. I'm sick of reality TV and I'm sick of news programmes that are more censored than accurate. I'm sick of tokens, token minorities, token universities, token degrees, token attempts at the truth, tokens. I'm sick of fat people, ugly people, stupid people, gay people, coloured people, female people, whiny people all complaining they don't have the opportunities in life they would like and it must be someone else's fault. I'm sick of women that act like men and femininity being a crime, unless you're a man in which case you're a new man which nobody ever wanted because there was nothing wrong with the old one. I'm sick of people falling over and suing the ground and people watching nipples and suing the TV and I'm sick of coffee cups with 'don't pour over yourself, you may get burnt' on the side to try and counter this.

I'm sick of stupid Americans who don't know the difference between patriotism and jingoism and who think flag waving should be an Olympic event. I'm sick of Americans who cry that people hate them or are jealous of them or who are anti them because someone dares to point out that the America they've been programmed to believe in from birth bears no relation to the one that exists in real life.

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Re:Google

[drachenstern]

So, I have a solution, albeit a baby solution. Let's nurture it and develop it.

If you SSL into my box, you and I have a, presumably, secure connection, such that noone knows what we are sending back and forth. For all they know, we could be exchanging Oracle and SAP db's, in dd of=nnnnn.img format, such that the requirement of sending that data is that we send the data in chunks of approximately 4MB to ensure proper reception, and such that with the proper queueing software, could send GB's of data in continous chunks. But since it's SSL, we've established that we have a baseline relationship, or else you are sucking everything off my system.

But they don't know if you're a bloodsucking leech or a qualified field location. Right?

So therefore, I foresee invitation-only BBS's as it were, with SSL or better connections, with no bandwidth throttling pipes inbound. What, they're going to show that nobody has the reasonable right to connect over SSL to transmit large amounts of data back and forth?

So they think they can prove that we are transmitting movies or something over SSL? Why? How large is an Ubuntu DVD image? What about any of the other distro's on LiveCD? And for us to say that we are transmitting back and forth amongst known peers, isn't that what the internet was all about? Trusted "peer" computing? Not DRM computing?

I only ask that I be allowed to lay claim to Drachenstern on future BBS's of this nature. And I defy my ISP to tell me that I can not allow my peers to connect to my system over SSL for true and honest reasons.

Of course, I am only looking at the issue of Packet Inspection with this post, not the issue of bandwidth throttling at the other end. I would be willing to pay for T1 or other business services to maintain my non-throttled bandwidth. And may all holy entities help the Telco's if they decide to throttle all business plans.