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The Coming Censorship Wars
KentuckyFC writes "Many countries censor internet traffic using techniques such as blocking IP addresses, filtering traffic with certain URLs in the data packets and prefix hijacking. Others allow wiretapping of international traffic with few if any legal safeguards. There are growing fears that these practices could trigger a major international incident should international
traffic routed through these countries fall victim, whether deliberately or by accident (witness the prefix hijacking of YouTube in Pakistan last year). So how to avoid these places? A group of computer scientists investigating this problem say it turns out to be surprisingly difficult to determine which countries traffic might pass through. But their initial assessment indicates that the countries with the most pervasive censorship policies — China, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia — pose a minimal threat because so little international traffic passes their way. The researchers instead point the finger at western countries that have active censorship policies and carry large amounts of international traffic. They highlight the roles of the two biggest carriers: Great Britain, which actively censors internet traffic, and the US, which allows warrantless wiretapping of international traffic (abstract)."
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How does the US's warrantless wiretapping become the biggest issue in censorship when they don't actually censor anything? Wiretapping, for people who don't know, is the act of surveillance and there is no connection to censorship whatsover.
Typical left wing garbage when they excuse or minimize truly awful behavior of countries where they actively engage in internet censorship.
you can setup encryption that's so strong they don't have a hope in hell of breaking it, and even if they started going after proxy providers (remmeber their in another country) it's a cat and mouse game they just can't win - you can change your proxy with a few key strokes.
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That's the problem. Some censorship is critical to national security, or other types of security. Right now nuclear devices are too hard to build for any single idiot. Fusion research may change that. Would you want THOSE plans public ? Or censored ? Should the U.S. publish nuclear transports so that the next time some "allah"-massacrers feel like attacking something they can really do some damage ? Perhaps the plans to the brooklyn bridge should be made public, including a little booklet "blow these 2 bars up if you want to make sure lots of people die" ? Perhaps skyscraper plans, in order to encourage "flaw finding" in skyscrapers like in software programs. The next time muslims feel like massacring they could bring down a few 100 buildings instead of 2, by exploiting these "security holes" ?
In DNA manipulation, some procedures aren't all that difficult, even to do in your own garage. Preparing a bioweapon isn't hard (it's not killing yourself in the process and delivering the weapon that are the problematic parts), perhaps it should be published how it's done, with extra emphasis on those parts where the terrorists that have tried had real trouble with (e.g. an ineffective delivery device for sarin gas was the only thing that prevented the tokyo subway from being filled with that gas. Can't have that ... let's publish a few DIY plans).
Child porn stimulates abusing children sexually for financial gain. Censorship can prevent the financial gain, thereby lowering child abuse. Of course this is a good thing.
Let's face it, censoring some things should be done. Basically anything that crosses a certain threshold of criticality and cannot easily be modified should be a secret, and it should be a crime to divulge such information to anyone who does not need to know. Everything from building weaknesses to certain scientific results ...
And obviously a country's government gets to spy on "transit" traffic. Even ISP's, which are private companies, get to do that (and they *have* to, at least somewhat, if they want to keep the network operating).
Whether censorship is allowed or not, should depend on the intention of the censorship. Whether spying is allowed, should depend on the intention (certainly there can be little argument that there's nothing against defensive spying). Censorship to prevent crimes from creating truly major consequences should be done.
If we don't ... all it takes is 1 (ONE) lunatic. And I do believe we have more supply than just one.
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