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[glen]

Here is quote from the Internet Service Provider (ISP) Content Filtering Pilot Report - October 2009

The testing for circumvention generally indicates that filtering of additional categories of content, enabled ISPs to implement measures which made some circumvention techniques more difficult to use. For example many commercial lists have a “proxy” category; proxies are a common form of filter circumvention.

So this has me wondering whether really most of the ISP internet filter will be about blocking circumvention sites rather than "bad" sites. I don't actually use them myself but I am aware that proxies are used as an aid to protect people's privacy.



Here is some more info about privacy proxies (from wikipedia)!

Anonymizing proxy server



An anonymous proxy server (sometimes called a web proxy) generally attempts to anonymize web surfing. There are different varieties of anonymizers. One of the more common variations is the open proxy. Because they are typically difficult to track, open proxies are especially useful to those seeking online anonymity, from political dissidents to computer criminals. Some users are merely interested in anonymity for added security, hiding their identities from potentially malicious websites for instance, or on principle, to facilitate constitutional human rights of freedom of speech, for instance. The server receives requests from the anonymizing proxy server, and thus does not receive information about the end user's address. However, the requests are not anonymous to the anonymizing proxy server, and so a degree of trust is present between that server and the user. Many of them are funded through a continued advertising link to the user.