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Re:Apparently AT&T has started blocking 4chan by jrockway on Sunday July 26, 2009 @07:44PM (#725048)
As I always say when I see censorship, this will just force more people to use Tor. One day the entire 'net will be encrypted and obfuscated, and tracking down the actual criminals will be impossible. (It's inevitable, of course, but you'd think ISPs and governments wouldn't want to force ordinary people to use tools like Tor just to chat with their friends on a message board. The more commonplace it becomes, the more bonehead criminals will be using it. And that makes stopping real crime much harder.)

When will people learn that whole point of the Internet is to make censorship impossible?

Re:Apparently AT&T has started blocking 4chan by rabidsnail on Sunday July 26, 2009 @10:31PM (#725235)
This was the sort of thing I used to say before I realized that the crypto-anarchist manifesto was written in 1992 and none of the stuff it predicted has happened.
Re:Apparently AT&T has started blocking 4chan by snprbob86 on Sunday July 26, 2009 @09:57PM (#725199)
What can we do to help accelerate this?

I'd like to see everything encrypted and opaque to carriers all the time. How do we get there?

Re:Apparently AT&T has started blocking 4chan by michaelfairley on Monday July 27, 2009 @01:30AM (#725428)
The I2P project (http://www.i2p2.de/) is working on creating an entirely anonymous, encrypted internet that layers on top of the regular internet. It's open source and welcomes contributions from talented hackers.
Re:Apparently AT&T has started blocking 4chan by j2d2 on Sunday July 26, 2009 @10:30PM (#725229)
Just like how everyone on the Internet uses PGP, right? Oh wait...
Re:Apparently AT&T has started blocking 4chan by jrockway on Monday July 27, 2009 @03:25AM (#725539)
Just like how all the ISPs are silently dropping e-mails that contain content that they don't agree with, right? Oh wait...
Re:Apparently AT&T has started blocking 4chan by misuba on Sunday July 26, 2009 @10:16PM (#725216)
Why wouldn't ISPs then just block all traffic they couldn't read?
Re:Apparently AT&T has started blocking 4chan by philfreo on Sunday July 26, 2009 @10:32PM (#725237)
That would include all https traffic