[liberationtech] Coursera to join censor club by blocking Iran IP space

[Amin Sabeti]

The main point is Coursera has done something that it's not legitimate.
Iranian users are just victim from both sides: The censorship from the
government and the sanctions from Western companies!

A


On 30 January 2014 11:28, wasa bee <wasabee18 at gmail.com> wrote:

> yeah, it depends how many users use the same proxy/VPN and the bandwidth
> available. uProxu/Lantern may then be a good alternative. I don't know the
> required bandwith of coursera vdo to be honest.
>
If slow means high latency, then ur right it's a problem when going back
> and forth in the video with the cursor. It should be less noticeable if ur
> only watching the vdo in one go. I assume TOR is "slow" because you get the
> lowest bandwidth of all links of ur path + jitter is high. M not an expert
> to tell u :) Someone might in the list?
> Keep in mind that TOR was designed for anonymity (hide who really are the
> communicating parties), not for censorship-resistance (although people use
> it for it now).
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Amin Sabeti <aminsabeti at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> When the Internet connection is very very slow, then how can you expect
>> Iranian users use TOR or other circumvention tools to watch videos on
>> Coursera?
>>
>>
>> BTW, I think the US government has eliminated this kind of sanctions
>> against Iranian people last summer. This action from Coursera is so
>> ridiculous.
>>
>> A
>>
>>
>>
>> On 30 January 2014 10:19, wasa bee <wasabee18 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> proxy != tor ;)
>>> Maybe they can also use lantern and google uProxy...
>>>
>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 10:06 AM, <andreas.bader at nachtpult.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The problem is the bandwith. Coursera works with video streams, that
>>>> means that you can't practically use e.g. TOR.
>>>> ------------------------------
>>>> *From: * wasa bee <wasabee18 at gmail.com>
>>>> *Date: *Thu, 30 Jan 2014 10:04:40 +0000
>>>> *To: *<andreas.bader at nachtpult.de>; liberationtech<
>>>> liberationtech at lists.stanford.edu>
>>>> *Subject: *Re: [liberationtech] Coursera to join censor club by
>>>> blocking Iran IP space
>>>>
>>>> Iranian users are very aware of proxies to access internet due to
>>>> internal censorship.
>>>> They will just use them to access coursera :); I doubt it will have
>>>> much impact on users.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 10:03 AM, <andreas.bader at nachtpult.de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Coursera says its not them, its an US export regulation. And this is
>>>>> related to all sanctioned countries, including Syria, Sudan and Cuba, not
>>>>> only Iran. I don't think that Coursera decided to do this by itself.
>>>>> Stanford University also offers Coursera courses btw.
>>>>>
>>>>> Andreas
>>>>>
>>>>> Source:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://blog.coursera.org/post/74891215298/update-on-course-accessibility-for-students-in-cuba
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>>>>> From: Nima Fatemi <nima at redteam.io>
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>>>>> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 09:22:33
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