I think this is a growing trend in the world. Politicians has learned about the "tubes" and trying to control it. of course every children must be protected from the dangers of devil's tool Internet.
In Turkey there is law numbered 5651 giving TIB to control Internet access. They have the uncontrolled power of "deciding" wheter any content is outlaw or not. And ordering ISP's to block access. I think they even "self decide" to block sites where court orders are required. Our trust ISP TTNet obeys any order from TIB. And the funny thing is they do block whole domains. Not content. If a subdomain.example.com is decided to be outlaw then access to example.com is blocked. Funnier thing is they do this by hijacking domains at the service provider level. And the funniest thing is our Prime Minister once answered a question about Youtube's access restriction with "I can access Youtube, so you can".
It's done at dns level? So technically a private dns linked through a tunnel to the outside could bypass this?
This makes me think we need an international "constitution guidelines", with common sense stuff like don't let a non-judicial institution do this kind of censoring.
Some of the blockings are done really this way. Nearly every Turkish Internet user learned about opendns now :). Also there is a huge demand for ktunnel like applications.
In Turkey there is law numbered 5651 giving TIB to control Internet access. They have the uncontrolled power of "deciding" wheter any content is outlaw or not. And ordering ISP's to block access. I think they even "self decide" to block sites where court orders are required. Our trust ISP TTNet obeys any order from TIB. And the funny thing is they do block whole domains. Not content. If a subdomain.example.com is decided to be outlaw then access to example.com is blocked. Funnier thing is they do this by hijacking domains at the service provider level. And the funniest thing is our Prime Minister once answered a question about Youtube's access restriction with "I can access Youtube, so you can".