Expanding my column this week is entitled " Stop the unstoppable "(pdf) and is adapted to the role of writing the past 26 days about the consequences of judicial lock attempt Btjunkie by an Italian judge. Then, the full text article:
Stopping the unstoppable
This week, an Italian judge decided to order telecommunication operators in his country that would prevent access to a page , Btjunkie , located outside its borders., to find that the consequences of his attempt at censorship came in a few hours: Page went on to automatically acquire a higher level of popularity by the so-called " Streisand effect ", while another page is created for free and without advertising, Proxyitalia, allowing users to establish anonymous connections to this or any other page.
In Canada, the Pirate Party has a few euros a month a virtual private network (VPN) that encrypts all traffic from a user , making the task virtually impossible to know which pages you visit or what activities developed in them. In France and the UK, services such VPN have gained great popularity as a reaction to the futile attempts of persecution: iPredator , WiTopia and many more offer customers security, privacy and freedom to do as they exit the bits.
In China, every company active in foreign trade regularly use a VPN, can not risk his "great wall" will cause problems communicating with their customers. Individuals, however, tend to have more qualms: in a totalitarian regime, using certain tools may become suspicious , and you meet someone knocking on your door, at best, make you uncomfortable questions.
Those who defend the need to spy on users, intercept your traffic or block their path to certain services are people who añorarían live in a totalitarian regime, or hosting a secret desire to "close the Internet." But as the former is not the case and the latter can not be done, such bans are nothing more than crude attempts to stop the unstoppable useless. And besides, a solemn stupidity. Not because they did not tell.
