On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:39:32 +0000, Invisible wrote:

>>>> The super dumb comes from the presumption that they shouldn't have to
>>>> have just cause, or evidence, or a court order, or anything else,
>>>> presumably, other than some moron's "anonymous tip".
>>>
>>> Well, it /does/ make it very much easier to quietly censor things you
>>> don't want people to see, right?
>>
>> Not so much, no.  The Internet does an amazing job "routing around
>> damage".
> 
> Sure. Any technically sophisticated Internet user won't have too much
> trouble getting around the blacklist. The clueless newbies? Not so much.

Actually, I don't think many of the users in Egypt were anything more 
than normal users, but the techies made it easy for them to route around 
the government-imposed outage during the uprising there.

>> Look at the number of times and ways various organisations have tried
>> to shut down The Pirate Bay.
> 
> I have to admit, Wikipedia's blackout is the very first time I'd even
> *heard* of The Pirate Bay.

<boggle>

Jim

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