Session:Let's talk about practicalities of internet censorship circumvention
| Description | Let's talk about practicalities of internet censorship circumvention, from the perspective of the reader/user, and from the perspective of the publisher.
From the point of view of the reader/user, there is Tor, there are VPNs, there are proxies. While useful and effective, these tools are often illegal, and blocked, in a rising number of countries. Centralized appstores also are obviously revealing themselves as a problem (no surprise to many Internet activists) by blocking VPN apps in certain areas as requested by governments (like Apple in China). From the point of view of the publisher, a solution is needed that does not require the readers/users to install specific software. Requiring or expecting a large population of people to install Tor Browser has proved not to be a workable solution, for example. Domain fronting is in its infancy, browsers still do not support it, and we have seen SNI-based blocking of TLS traffic in the wild - not to mention, it relies on large, centralized providers to front for you. Again, this can mean a government has a way of pushing your content off of the Net simply by using the pressure points of a given large provider. Mobile apps might be a solution, but again, they require cooperation of large appstores. There really doesn't seem to be a good solution. |
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| Type | Talk |
| Kids session | No |
| Keyword(s) | social, political, software, network, web |
| Tags | journalism, privacy, openness, censorship |
| Processing assembly | Assembly:Teahouse |
| Person organizing | User:Rysiek |
| Language | en - English |
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| Subtitle | Let's talk about practicalities of internet censorship circumvention |
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| Starts at | 2017/12/28 16:00 |
| Ends at | 2017/12/28 17:00 |
| Duration | 60 minutes |
| Location | Assembly:TeaHouse |
