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* [email protected] (Stephen J. Wilcox) [Tue 22 Apr 2003, 18:24 CEST]: [..] > Of course if you want to filter certain IPs, why not do it in routing rather > than messing with these applications? The objective probably is content filtering. Name-based virtual hosting breaks filtering certain IP addresses. > Bit of a can of worms if you ask me tho.. censorship, freedom of > speech, and once you start actively policing you need to keep it up > else surely your liable if you allow a bit of the type of content > through that your aiming to stop? (eg if you claim your dialup is > children safe then allow porn thro that makes you at fault, at least > being a pure "network operator" keeps you out of this legal mess) Given: >> Background: >> >> I'm writing a research paper on government mandated web filtering in >> germany (see http://www.politechbot.com/p-03983.html for an overview I daresay there'll unfortunately be little harm in the government claiming to operate a Nazi relic-free network but failing at it. Sane network operators do not wish to filter content. Back to the subject: In my experience most leased-line customers use the provider's caching nameservers, virtually all the dialup customers do (you can't change it in Win9x anyway), and almost nobody uses a web proxy out of their own will - or if they do, they stop doing it the minute it has a small outage or they find another excuse to blame it for a web page not loading correctly (users like to play with their settings). -- Niels.
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