At 07:43 PM 9/10/96 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote:
I respectfully disagree. I spend most of my time going through sites like cnn.com, hotwired.com, news.com, altavista.digital.com, yahoo.com, lycos.com, hotbot.com, eff.org, well.com, mit.edu, whitehouse.gov, and so on. Search engines and directories, in particular, are good chokepoints to block.
Blocking 100 sites would certainly be significant to me -- as long as they're the right ones. Before the technical fixes, that is.
But aren't you, the Nazis, Lee Kwan Yew, and the Heathen Chinee all committing the "Web Fallacy" -- the belief that the Web = The Net? Have you seen *any* examples of mailing list censorship? Even the mild newsgroup censorship attempts are easily dodged by picking up your news from a distant server (which is not a *technological* fix but an ordinary part of reading news since many ISPs don't carry all 30K of groups in any case). If almost all sites are ignored, if news is available from thousands of servers, and if mailing lists, IRC, telnet, ftp, gopher, etc are ignored; can we say that there is much actual net censorship going on? DCF "The Net -- where any 12 year old can defeat the governments of the world with 15 minutes work."