Great Wall Of UK

It looks like I signed up to the wrong ISP. I do not agree at all with what they are doing but yet to have faced the issue of the ISP wide proxy (fingers crossed it won’t happen). An article on Cnet says certain UK ISPs have put a proxy between it’s subscribers and the Internet. This means they can filter any traffic they want to from inappropriate content to innocent websites and services.

I do not agree with the article title on Cnet because Wikipedia has the right to block by IP, a widely used technique and therefore the ISPs themselves are not blocking the site directly.

Cnet – British ISPs filtering Wikipedia

About Danny

I.T software professional always studying and applying the knowledge gained and one way of doing this is to blog. Danny also has participates in a part time project called Energy@Home [http://code.google.com/p/energyathome/] for monitoring energy usage on a premise. Dedicated to I.T since studying pure Information Technology since the age of 16, Danny Tsang working in the field that he has aimed for since leaving school. View all posts by Danny → This entry was posted in Networking, News and tagged Cnet, filter, Internet, ISP, proxy, traffic, UK, Web, Wikipedia. Bookmark the permalink.

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