The efficiency of blocking zero

Btjunkie case in Italy again demonstrates the shortsightedness of those who seek to block or censor access to sites abroad: a few hours after the announcement of the court order requiring all service providers to prevent the country's connectivity Btjunkie access, had already appeared proxies for general (and therefore with complicated arguments ahead of its hypothetical blocking) as Proxyitalia that allowed access to the page in question. I spent a while browsing Proxyitalia , it only works with an Italian IP address: it is a proxy not too fast, but ad-free, with multiple options, and quite simple to use.

Services low technical complexity that can be created by anyone, from the very Btjunkie others, or they can be replaced with the simple use of a VPN user to assign an IP from another country , thus avoiding any type of lock. In my case, I use long WiTopia because it's had for my needs of connectivity in my trips to China and because it offers a wide variety of nodes around the world to choose from. How to prohibit, except in dictatorships, pages that the user can enter the address of any other page? The alternatives are only two: to be useless, or be totalitarian.

That is, more or less what we expected in Spain when the law Sinde start generating the same kind of nonsense, many people in our country have told me have already prepared such services. It's more than possible, even the pages blocked experiment, due to the " Streisand effect ", increased his popularity. An absurd and futile game of cat and mouse. As John Gilmore said at the time,

The Net interprets censorship as damage "and routes around it."

(In free translation: "the net interprets censorship as damage, and prevents surrounding it.") In Italy they already have evidence of that. Here, with a minister and a cultural industry bent on beating his head against the wall, it will take a few more months to see it.