US is set to censor internet

[Ali Quadir]

technologies exist to thwart proxy usage to access prohibited sites, it can be done by deep packet inspection.

Deep packet inspection is extremely expensive to be applied on a large scale and it is unable to deal with encryption or polymorphism. In effect it's absolutely pointless as long as encryption exists... Which is why in some countries encryption is illegal.. But that would mean everyone could sniff company secrets which might cut into the countries income. Also there are methods to embed information into for example a family photo, you simply can't detect if there is embedded and encrypted information in regular media files.

I agree, they'll try and just like in Iran and China people will get in trouble for it. But it's the attempt to control with heavy handed techniques more than actually being able to do it that causes the problem. You'll get idiotic responses like as soon as they figure out youtube had a video with embedded messages they'll block the whole of youtube which of course is completely pointless and extremely annoying to everyone else.

We already see those responses.