>>>> 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.

Am I missing something?

>>> 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>

What? Like it's famous or something?

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