On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Andrew Lewman <and...@torproject.is> wrote: > On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:41:19 -0400 > Andrew Paolucci <adpaolu...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I made a disturbing discovery for me and my fellow Canucks today when >> I was sitting at a Tim Hortons(very popular coffee chain in Canada >> that provides free WiFi) enjoying my coffee while working on my >> laptop. > > Tim Horton's filters their wifi. Most coffee shops do. They subscribe, > or use a 3rd party who subscribes, to commercial blocklists, like > Websense, who classify torproject.org as a proxy avoidance site (why > yes, yes we are and we're funded to do just that) as if the world will > end when Tim Horton's can't stalk all their customers for datamining, > malware protection, or "safety"--or whatever silly reason they have for > censoring the Internet. > > About the only course of action is to complain to Tim Horton's every > time.
Anecdotal evidence in my possession suggests that direct complaints will not work. That said, I do have some ideas that I'll bring up with Andrew P offlist. FWIW though, I *never* use open wifi, most especially corporate-sponsored "free wifi" for the reasons mentioned above. -- Scott Elcomb @psema4 on Twitter / Identi.ca / Github & more Atomic OS: Self Contained Microsystems http://code.google.com/p/atomos/ Member of the Pirate Party of Canada http://www.pirateparty.ca/ _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
