On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 19:41:25 +0100 mick <m...@rlogin.net> wrote: > On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 15:51:24 +0000 > Matt Pagan <m...@pagan.io> allegedly wrote: > > > This past week on the Tor Help Desk someone requested assistance > > setting up Tor to circumvent the internet censorship done by the > > UK government. I wrote this blurb because I wanted the Tor community > > to be alerted to this new use case. I pointed to your post so that > > Tor Weekly News readers would have a frame of reference for what was > > happening in the United Kingdom without revealing the contents of > > the actual conversation I had. > > > > Hi Matt > > No problem. However, whilst we do have the beginnings of very > intrusive network censorship in the UK (some ISPs are more pliable > than others when leaned on) we do not /yet/ have what you could call > a a pan UK firewall on the lines of that seen in more (ahem) > repressive regimes. > > It is interesting that UK users should be approaching the Tor help > desk for advice, and "use Tor" is certainly good advice. But you could > equally say "change your ISP to one with some balls". UK users should > stay away from the majors (BT, Virgin, talk-talk, O2, Sky, EE etc) and > use one of the multiple independents. BT in particular has a very bad > track record (see "phorm") whilst the likes of AAISP are truly > excellent. > > If enough UK users vote with their wallets, ISPs may be more inclined > to grow a pair. Unfortunately, the general UK reaction to the Snowden > revelations seem only to prove how apathetic UK users really are. > > Best > > Mick > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Mick Morgan > gpg fingerprint: FC23 3338 F664 5E66 876B 72C0 0A1F E60B 5BAD D312 > http://baldric.net > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >
Thanks for shedding more light on the situation in the UK. I'll take that into consideration. Peace, Matt Pagan -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
