Ways to bypass the Big Belgian firewall

Yes, the Belgian government can decide which websites we visit and which we don't. The first step on a road that will lead us to situations like we have seen in Australia (According to Child Support groups, Net filtering is a waste of money)

Here is the best Belgian article I have read to date about this issue which covers all aspects : "zwarte lijst voor belgische surfers omstreden" by Els Bellens (Zdnet.be)

Like Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the WWW stated, the internet was designed to be used without limitations. The main argument of government officials to start with this blacklist, is that "average users won't be able to stumble upon these bad websites anymore. It's for their own protection. "

And in a typical Belgian fashion, (luckily for us), it's implemented in the least efficient manner: a DNS blacklist.

And as expected, a lot of internet users (e.g. blogologie, lvb.net, belgiancowboys.be, tik vzw) have started listing ways to bypass this filter just as a matter of principle (like the Streisand effect).

So let's hope that this blacklist will go away and the government will stop throwing away money on an inefficient systems that will never work.