Censorship never works because it's so easy to turn it onto a game of whack-a-mole with next to no money and effort even aside from all the other flaws.
And it's also taught anyone who use TPB in the UK that the first thing to do if you can't get to a site is to search for proxies. Every extra hurdle makes people better at avoiding the next one...
I'd like to think that the uk web filter and the wider government surveillance narrative of the past few months is actually a ploy by our leaders to slowly educate the public in circumventing censorship and to stimulate the development of a free internet - like the Socratic method, but for culture.
Then it gets cloudy outside and I stop thinking that.
