Request fron HN: A url forwarding aggregator. Anti government blocker.

4 points by GrandMasterBirt ↗ HN
In lieu of the recent US government censorships, is there anyone planning on working on a domain aggregation service, you go to a site (lets say domainaggregator.com or a specific ip address) and type in a url. The site tries the url, if blocked, it will then use an alternate URL. The URLs are posted by the site owners because this is a service to them.

As a bonus we can make plugins to all major browsers to use this service to automatically undo the US blocking of domain names. If you go to a site, and the response is the censored site, your browser will look up an alternative and update your bookmarks.

The site can be a known IP# so we don't need a name lookup.

My reasons:

1) They will pry my constitutional rights from my cold dead hands only.

2) The US has no right to censor something world-wide. Just like a single state has no right to criminally pursue anyone anywhere in the world for a local law that indicates that "inappropriate" content cannot be served to children.

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I am hoping for a future-proof solution. Something that steps outside the DNS-level infrastructure and acts as a regular web service. If in some time the service becomes moot due to something more useful, it would be better to just use it as a database for bootstraping the better system (if applicable). I just wanted something we can use fast.