The Editor,
As someone who teaches about cybercrime at SFU, this is my reaction to the columns about Britain's proposal to block pornography.
Such a move might block pornography for some completely tech illiterate people but otherwise it will fail.
I wish it weren't the case but people have a huge number of ways to access this type of content - or any content - on the internet. For example, many people do not like Netflix Canada, so they use virtual private networks to look like they are coming from a U.S. household, effectively leaving any Canadian government, even the service provider, unable to observe their traffic. This allows them to view Netflix as if they were in the U.S. - and this is for common commercial content.
You can also use free proxies, available online with one minute of searching. Or you can use The Onion Routing, again, freely available, to view whatever you want, completely anonymously and encrypted.
Certain countries have blocked The Pirate Bay and that has also been a miserable failure.
Richard Frank, Coquitlam
