Thursday, 26 May 2011

the PROXY trick - Tutorial: How To Get Around Government Censorship Of YouTube Videos

Step By Step Guide Explaining How To Get By Government Censorship Of YouTube Videos
Alexander Higgins, Contributing Writer
Activist Post

Our so-called liberty loving democratic governments are resorting to tactics of a fascist totalitarian dictatorship and censoring YouTube videos, which show nothing more than people protesting for their civil liberty. Here is the story behind the government censorship along with a tutorial on how to defeat it. Enjoy!

12610 points us to an Infowars article revealing that the Government is censoring YouTube videos, not for “piracy” or “cyber attack” videos, but to hide the massive uprising of the middle class that is spreading worldwide due to unbearable contempt.

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
May 20
In a frightening example of how the state is tightening its grip around the free Internet, it has emerged that You Tube is complying with thousands of requests from governments to censor and remove videos that show protests and other examples of citizens simply asserting their rights, while also deleting search terms by government mandate.
The latest example is You Tube’s compliance with a request from the British government to censor footage of the British Constitution Group’s Lawful Rebellion protest, during which they attempted to civilly arrest Judge Michael Peake at Birkenhead county court.
Peake was ruling on a case involving Roger Hayes, former member of UKIP, who has refused to pay council tax, both as a protest against the government’s treasonous activities in sacrificing Britain to globalist interests and as a result of Hayes clearly proving that council tax is illegal.
Hayes has embarked on an effort to legally prove that the enforced collection… because no contract has been agreed between the individual and the state. His argument is based on the sound legal principle that just like the council, Hayes can represent himself as a third party in court and that “Roger Hayes” is a corporation and must be treated as one in the eyes of the law.
The British government doesn’t want this kind of information going viral in the public domain because it is scared stiff of a repeat of the infamous poll tax riots of 1990, a massive tax revolt in the UK that forced the Thatcher government to scrap the poll tax altogether because of mass civil disobedience and refusal to pay.
When viewers in the UK attempt to watch videos of the protest, they are met with the message, “This content is not available in your country due to a government removal request.”
more: http://www.infowars.com/government-orders-you-tube-to-censor-protes…
Of course, the first thing I did before starting to write this article was to vet the story. I clicked on the link to the censored video and it loaded absolutely fine for me. But as the article clearly states, it has been censored by the UK government, so viewers in the UK can’t view it.

So, I needed to trick YouTube into thinking I was visiting from within the UK to verified the video was actually censored. Here is how I did it.

1. Since I am using Firefox, I installed the FoxyProxy plugin from the Mozilla addons website. In short this will allow me to send a fake computer address (IP Address) to YouTube — or any other website — when I go to visit it. (It is really much more complicated but that should make it simple enough to understand).

FoxyProxy Plugin

After clicking add to Firefox it prompts me to restart Firefox.
2. I then Google for “proxy servers in the UK”. The first result in google gives me exactly what I want, “A List Of Fake Computer Addresses” I can use to send to YouTube.

3. I Open FoxyProxy (Within Firefox – Tools –> FoxyProxy Stand –> Options). Then Click Add New Proxy. On the form that pops up I enter the IP and Port of the Server I found in step 2.As shown in the example, you can enter 77.73.149.10 for the IP Address and 8080 for the port. Click OK and then OK Again!

FireProxy - Add New Proxy Server Dialog
As shown in the example, you can enter 77.73.149.10 for the IP Address and 8080 for the port. Click OK and then OK Again!

4. To start using the proxy server, in Firefox, Go to Tools->FoxyProxy Standard and Click on “Use Proxy 77.73.149.10:8080" for all urls.

5. Just to be sure its working go to WhatsMyIP.com and make sure you see this.

WhatsMyIp.com - Should show the IP Address you entered for the Proxy
- And in this case a message saying your using a proxy

Okay, that’s it; we are all set up. Now I attempt to pull up the YouTube video, this time tricking YouTube into thinking I am visiting from within side of Great Britain . . . and . . .

YouTube Video  Censored In the UK
YouTube Video Censored In the UK

Now, People in the UK can simply reverse the process and enter an IP Address from a proxy server from any other nation beside the United Kingdom.

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1 comment:

Save the Holy Headland said...

If you search You Tube for such terms as 'Lawful Rebellion Birkenhead' you can find the video re-uploaded by some public-spirited souls out there.(Thanks, whoever you are!) Obviously Britgov is getting nervous of People Power... And the Freemen on't Land must have a good valid basis in law, otherwise why is da guv so worried? REAL DEMOCRACY NOW!!!!!!!