I think it’s an open question whether the British state has the technical chops, money and willingness to implement a Great Firewall type solution.

The state isn’t totally incompetent but doing it properly would be a serious undertaking, the kind of thing where the recent track record of big government tech projects isn’t great

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Orygin 4 hours ago | parent [-]

They already track everything going through the undersea cables, why couldn't they start blocking at those points?

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dannyw 18 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Splicing and mirroring a cable is about 10x easier than filtering it.

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ifwinterco 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Getting the raw data is relatively straightforward, but my understanding is doing real time DPI at country scale without being easily circumvented (and without breaking the rest of the internet you want to work) isn't so easy.

If you want to really make sure nobody in the uk can easily access 4chan (PRC style) it needs some effort, and you're in an arms race with attempts to mask/tunnel traffic so it gets through

	▲	superxpro12 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		i too love the idea of deep government inspection of every piece of data i send