<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lapser</author><text>&amp;gt; Try to access thepiratebay.org or other pirate sites, or other sites that the UK gov deems inappropriate (CP obviously), etc.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know about the &amp;quot;other sites&amp;quot;, but tpb isn&amp;#x27;t part of any &amp;quot;Great Firewall&amp;quot;. It&amp;#x27;s just ISPs have been required to update their DNS servers to _not_ resolve the DNS record. Even then, there are still quite a few ISPs that have not implemented it. It&amp;#x27;s why changing your DNS servers to something like Google or Cloudflare means you can easily access tpb.&lt;p&gt;So blocked websites in the UK are nowhere near on the same level as the Great Firewall.&lt;p&gt;My guess is those other sites are a bit more sophisticated, or if not, ISPs are willing to comply easier.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TamDenholm</author><text>&amp;gt; If the UK government really wants to follow through with their plans, they need to set up a Great Firewall - just like China - to block their citizens from accessing encrypted services like Tutanota.&lt;p&gt;We (the UK) already have a great firewall. Try to access thepiratebay.org or other pirate sites, or other sites that the UK gov deems inappropriate (CP obviously), etc. Its just a case of encroaching that same system just a little further, step by step.&lt;p&gt;People only tend to fight back when large sweeping one-off changes come in. If you consistently and repeatedly wear the other side down, you eventually get your way. How many times did the house of commons vote on brexit? How many times did the US congress vote on Kevin McCarthy becoming speaker? Yeah, as long as you just keep on and on about it, you get your way.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We will not ‘walk out’ of UK, nor comply with any request to bypass encryption</title><url>https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/uk-undermine-encryption</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Cthulhu_</author><text>Wasn&amp;#x27;t there a law passed that you need to provide ID before your ISP will serve porn sites? Or was that just a proposal? Either way, the powers that be are thirsting for a Great Firewall, an end to net neutrality, and backdoors to encryption.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TamDenholm</author><text>&amp;gt; If the UK government really wants to follow through with their plans, they need to set up a Great Firewall - just like China - to block their citizens from accessing encrypted services like Tutanota.&lt;p&gt;We (the UK) already have a great firewall. Try to access thepiratebay.org or other pirate sites, or other sites that the UK gov deems inappropriate (CP obviously), etc. Its just a case of encroaching that same system just a little further, step by step.&lt;p&gt;People only tend to fight back when large sweeping one-off changes come in. If you consistently and repeatedly wear the other side down, you eventually get your way. How many times did the house of commons vote on brexit? How many times did the US congress vote on Kevin McCarthy becoming speaker? Yeah, as long as you just keep on and on about it, you get your way.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>We will not ‘walk out’ of UK, nor comply with any request to bypass encryption</title><url>https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/uk-undermine-encryption</url></story>