Can people in the US use a foreign ISP?

[SoCalDem]

I am starting to wonder what will happen if the congress starts puttiing the screws to the "internets". Can we just sign up for ISP service in ...say the UK? Can this be done via satellite or something?

I am technically challenged, so I don;t understand how this all works, but if the internet is "un-ownable"", yet places like China can censor, are we far behind something like that?

Is it even possible to use a different country as a "base" for your internet services so you can escape the heavy hand of the US government?


just askin'...

[walldude]

1. Well the internet itself is un-ownable but access to it

can be controlled. Hence the China censorship. While I know it is physically possible to use a foreing ISP I haven't heard of it being done. Too expensive. My advice to all computer users is make friends with at least 1 IT guy or computer geek. There will be ways around any censorship attempts on the internet, you just need access to the right people and the right knowledge.

[Clovis Sangrail]

3. can be done

I don't know of anybody in the US using a foreign ISP, but there are plenty of people in Baja who get internet through Starband satellite.

[benddem]

2. a friend of mine

uses de all the time. She is german and still uses her deutch email address.

[mwooldri]

4. Don't need to sign up for different ISP access....

... the answer to that is a secure remote proxy. Thus your traffic is encrypted between the foreign proxy and your computer. THe NSA would have to "crack" it - I'm sure they could if they really wanted to but given that this is the same encryption that the Internet commerce uses for transmitting credit card information it would expend a bit of computer power in hacking that data.

Plus with enough remote proxies, and enough data flowing overseas along with all the spam, chances of detection would be quite low.

It's what the Chinese underground already do.

Mark.