Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] web proxies for Chinese and other oppressed groups

["Christian M. Cepel" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

They wouldn't be fighting a loosing battle.

They would just use a broad filter that punished any ISP that allowed 
one to pop up.

MU punishes everyone with a 1and1 account when one of 1and1's clients 
gets the attention of spamcop.  1and1 hears about it in short order from 
all the clients who have their email to the university blocked 'for no 
reason'.

They could fight a much faster winning war against such efforts, that 
providers (and legislators) on this side of the pond would have to work 
(almost as if for the Chinese government) to fight, prevent and make 
illegal and punish those who setup such proxies.

It all comes down to capitalism. Businesses with sites they need the 
Chinese to see and access won't tolerate their access being cut off 
because Joe Somebody on the same filtered range has tried to fight for 
Justice, Liberty, and the American Way.

You can't change how the Chinese government will enforce such filters, 
so the businesses can't attack the Chinese government and will have to 
attack the 'miscreants' instead.

Mike Miller wrote:
> We've been hearing about the Chinese government blocking their people 
> from accessing many web sites.  So Google caved and made a special 
> Google.cn with restricted capabilities to satisfy the Chinese 
> government.  This leads me to wonder if it would not be possible for 
> Chinese people to have secure connections to specially-designed web 
> sites that allow them to connect from there to any other web site.  To 
> make this work, there would have to be a lot of these sites and they 
> would have to move around the web.  Is it possible to make such a thing 
> work?  If it worked well enough, it wouldn't have to work for long 
> because it would probably put an end to the Chinese filtering scheme 
> fairly quickly.  Why would they waste time fighting a losing battle?
>
> Mike
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