We Do It for the Children
I’m staying in a hotel chain in London only to find a firewall that throttles interesting stuff like BBC iPlayer and YouTube. I tried going to my VPN provider. That the website is blocked to protect children and vulnerable people. What?! Meanwhile I have no trouble connecting to #4chan because they only care so much about children_._
Of course Tor is blocked also, well for other people, I got it to work anyway and now I’m writing this using it out of spite.
If I give them the benefit of the doubt, I would say that they want to keep bandwidth usage down and the best way to do that is to throttle big streaming websites and they want to close loopholes by blocking ways around that.
However the explanation kills me: to help keep children and vulnerable people safe. So this provider says that they want to help make the internet a better place by taking away the anonymity of trolls and online creeps? That makes no sense. Why even provide have internet access at all? I think the real case is above, they need to cut bandwidth costs and that’s fine but leave the nonsensical rhetoric out of it.