[tor-relays] Question regarding ethical torrent blocking

Conrad Rockenhaus conrad at rockenhaus.com
Mon Jul 16 01:20:52 UTC 2018


On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 2:18 PM, Mirimir <mirimir at riseup.net> wrote:
>
> I think that you'll find blocking bittorrent to be harder than expected.
> Modern protocols are well-encrypted, and DPI doesn't really touch them.
>

DPI was never even under consideration. I wasn't comfortable calling
it "Free Speech" when I was indeed limiting access to something by
implementing an exit policy. I forgot that the default policy in
itself limits SMTP, and other things and my comfort level increased.

-Conrad


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