UK Parliament: Banning Tor Is Unacceptable and Technologically Impossible

An anonymous reader writes: Months after UK prime minister David Cameron sought to ban strong encryption, a new parliamentary briefing contradicts that, at least when it comes to Tor. The briefing says, "there is widespread agreement that banning online anonymity systems altogether is not seen as an acceptable policy option in the UK. Even if it were, there would be technical challenges." The briefing cites Tor's ability to circumvent such censorship in countries like China as well as looking at both legal and illegal uses of Tor.

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Re:Common sense to you and me, but...

[CrimsonAvenger]

After a mere two centuries, even the Catholic Church had to admit the world is NOT in the center of the universe.

I gather you're not aware that Copernicus was working for a Bishop of the Catholic Church?

A century and a half later, it even apologized for it's treatment of the late Galileo!

Of course, what they were apologizing for was trying Galileo for the crime of calling the Pope an idiot in his book.

No, Galileo wasn't being tried for heliocentrism, even nominally, he was tried for asserting heliocentrism without PROOF.

Note, however, that the actual reason the Pope was butthurt over Galileo is that Galileo put a character into his book explaining heliocentrism named "simpleton", which character was, from internal clues, clearly meant to be the Pope.