UK internet filtering

Jacob Appelbaum jacob at appelbaum.net
Sun Dec 7 18:48:10 UTC 2008


Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 8:39 PM,  <phobos at rootme.org> wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 07:49:58PM -0500, gmaxwell at gmail.com wrote 0.2K bytes in 4 lines about:
>> : I've confirmed the reports of UK ISPs censoring Wikipedia using some
>> : UK tor exists.
>>
>> http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/UK_ISPs_erect_%27Great_Firewall_of_Britain%27_to_censor_Wikipedia
> 
> I intentionally did not link to the Wikinews article: They're often junk.
> 

I've confirmed this report by talking to people in the UK. At least two
of them are filtered in the manner stated by the Wikinews article.

I imagine that you can also observe by exiting through certain nodes
that have censoring ISPs.

I wonder if these nodes should be marked as bad exits?

Best,
Jacob



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