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Originally Posted by Mentar
There's a fundamental difference though: In this case, Youtube themselves decide to make content available or not - which is perfectly fine in my opinion. We were talking about sites like public torrent trackers or Rapidshare/Megaupload that have no interest to do self-censoring.
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You cannot connect to these sites without your ISP.
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Originally Posted by Mentar
They're called Geotargeting databases. You feed an IP in and get a (presumed) location back.
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Or WHOIS databases, it doesn't matter... fact is, that this information is already used for filtering.
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There's a difference between self-restricting yourself, and having a government agency force policies on you against your will. And in the internet, you'll always have webhosters who will provide net access or servers to you.
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That reminds me of the suppliers of electric energy in Germany. Technically there is a market where energy could be brokered in fair conditions for the end user. But since the providers became too big and too few, they can dictate the prices. I am not so optimistic that internet cartels can be prevented on the long run. The internet infrastructure is very expensive (especially the last mile - ISP) and therefore a target for big money business.