Italian internet cencorship

[Shaili (a.k.a. tds)]

Images on img5.imageshack.us are blocked for Italian users. Seems the domain hosts also pedopornographic material.

[Crush]

Imageshack is blocked for you? By whom?

[Shaili (a.k.a. tds)]

Italian police, Crush. Seems there is an investigation on the website which blocks Italian IPs.

[Crush]

So someone abuses a public web 2.0 service for criminal purpose and they block the whole service for everyone? Just great. The ministry of family afairs in Germany plans a similar internet censorship system to "fight child porn". Seems like we have to get used to surfing with abroad open proxies, TOR or other anonymizing systems in the future.

[Shaili (a.k.a. tds)]

C'est la vie.

[5t3v3]

C'est la vie? whatever happened to fight the machine and stand up for what you believe in? :p

[Shaili (a.k.a. tds)]

Just don't want to have something to do with law.

[Crush]

For a geek like me local internet filters are just an inconvenience, not a real problem.

They wouldn't filter by IP. A German ISP tried to block a single site by IP last year and they accidently blocked 3.5 million (!) websites hosted by GoDaddy, the largest webhoster in the US, while the targeted domain was available under a different IP a few hours later.

When they filter by DNS I would just use a 3rd party DNS server.

When they filter the http requests based on the url in the http header I just use https.

When the server doesn't support https (and unfortunately most servers don't, but I expect this to change in the future) I would just use an abroad open proxy which does or I would fire up TOR and jump circuits until I get an exit node which is not behind a filter.


But for the common internet user on the other hand...

[Shaili (a.k.a. tds)]

I know too Tor and privoxy are running, but I rather avoid using them in these cases