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Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?

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361 points gloxkiqcza | 1 comments | 24 Aug 25 16:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.232s | source
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everdrive ◴[24 Aug 25 18:44 UTC] No.45006602[source]▶
The free internet might be gone in the next decade. Probably time to buy a few hard drives and do some archiving. I don't just mean piracy. Articles, blogs, anything you find precious.
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black6 ◴[24 Aug 25 20:57 UTC] No.45007699[source]▶
The Internet was philosophically designed to move information, and for every effort to prevent that there is a workaround. There will always be a free protocol.
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WD-42 ◴[25 Aug 25 04:10 UTC] No.45010112[source]▶
Can we count on ISPs not mucking with stuff at the transport layer? I feel like at some point the only way is to create new networks entirely.
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1. cesarb ◴[25 Aug 25 12:14 UTC] No.45013011[source]▶
> Can we count on ISPs not mucking with stuff at the transport layer?

That used to be common in the past, many ISPs ran transparent HTTP proxies to reduce the use of their slow upstream links. The current push to use strong encryption and authentication everywhere (for instance, plain HTTP without TLS has become rare) makes it much harder.