On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:44:47 +0000, Invisible wrote:

>>>>> 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?

You were aware that Hosni Mubarak is no longer in charge in Egypt and 
that they had a "small" revolution last year, weren't you?

>>>> 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?

Arguably the most famous torrent site in the world.

Jim

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