Re: backbones filtering unsanctioned sites

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 6:47 AM, Robert McKay <robert () mckay com> wrote:

> On 2017-02-10 04:18, Ken Chase wrote:
>
> > https://torrentfreak.com/internet-backbone-provider-cogent-
> > blocks-pirate-bay-and-other-pirate-sites-170209/
> >
> > /kc
>
> Strange indeed.. but they forgot to ban it on IPv6 - maybe they're trying
> to push IPv6 adoption!
ha, you are hilarious.


> Banning any Cloudflare hosted sites by IP is particularly ineffective
> because it doesn't really matter which cloudflare IP you connect to as long
> as you present the right SNI name and HTTP Host header.. basically just add
> www.thepiratebay.org to your hosts file and point it at any other
> cloudflare IP.. like they banned 104.31.18.30 so change it to 104.31.18.31
> and ban evaded.
isn't any 'copyright driven' censorship move really just a half-a$$ed move
anyway? it's all about knocking out 90% of the users? ALL of these
restrictions can be avoided if you can encap around, or
fix-your-local-resolver, or ... which 90% of the  people just won't do...