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If a Government is able to successfully assert that companies within their borders must block access to content they find abhorrent, it's only a matter of time before they're convinced they can do it to ISPs, too.
But what about companies outside their borders?
Won't even matter. Like I said, if they convince themselves that they have the right to limit from within their borders it's only a matter of time before they convince themselves that they can limit ISPs. Then you have precedence, and other countries will follow suit.
That’s not exactly how jurisdiction works without a lot of international cooperation.
Plus we can just trade DNS entries or damn hosts files and they won’t know. The Pirate Bay is even still up.
The Internet was designed to withstand nuclear weapons. It’s not going down without a fight.
There is no jurisdiction. I'm speaking exclusively about France...
If France convinces themselves that they have the right to limit access to websites via VPN and other likewise software, it's only a matter of time before they convince themselves that they have the right to limit access at the ISP level.
Then once precedence is set, other European countries will follow Frances' example.
If you believe this statement to be accurate at all you're not paying attention...
And unless they want to send their troops into another country to tell that ISP what sites to block they can’t block them.
I helped Syrian and Egyptian dissidents to circumvent internet blockages during the Arab Spring. I have absolutely been paying attention.
As I said to the other guy, I'm exclusively referencing France here.......
Right, but if I’m in France and get my friend in Kazakhstan to plug in a Pi to create a VPN - which is pretty trivial provided you have a Kazakh friend - how will the French stop the Kazakh ISP from letting a computer in Kazakhstan access a website that is legal in Kazakhstan?
ISP mandated blocking has been around for decades. If you're talking about something else, I think most people here (and I) do not understand what