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

[wasa bee]

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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