[csomar]

Am I missing some point here? When Internet was censored in Tunisia, we would use proxies, https, sites like vtunnels... This became casual stuff even for the non-techie. So what's the point of censorship? Making access to the web a little bit harder? If you censor a video on Youtube, someone else can upload it to Facebook and watch it through HTTPS and diffuse it to many people.

Aren't (the French Gov. and other Govs.) aware of that? If so, what's the point of censorship?

[JonnieCache]

>Aren't (the French Gov. and other Govs.) aware of that? If so, what's the point of censorship?

To win votes by making the population feel safe, and to funnel taxpayers' money into the pockets of dubious whitehat contractors.

[atakan_gurkan]

They can make it a crime to access or allowing others to access censored material. Then once they have a search warrant or similar and can prove you accessed this material or helped others, you are in deep shit.

Imagine, they illegally search your friend's home, find that they accessed the material, coerce them into saying that you helped them with this and they can prosecute you. The search may not be used against your friend, but it may be used against you (IANAL). This would be very useful for suppressing opposition.

[Groxx]

Yes, because China has been so stunningly unsuccessful in its attempts.

There will always be ways around censorship. But by making it difficult, they can prevent the majority of people from doing so. And that's enough to make a lot of changes.

[p0nce]

Well this is the _french_ government. There is .gov sites storing passwords in plain text here.