According to the Financial Times RTE's Twitter ban has back-fired.
Having had time to reflect, a few of us (fellow IT bumblers) are now thinking that this block was never meant to be permanent. In fact, it was a feint and what it's done is for those against the ban to show their hand, from a technological perspective.
Next time it happens, we might see the routing to many out of country DNS servers blocked, same for private VPN etc. All of the data collected during this episode is likely to be used to strengthen any further blocks. They have the technology to make it very difficult for the average user to access sites the government don't want to access.
There will always be ways round the blocks, its just that the simplest and most straightforward ways may become redundant and it'll end up an internet cat and mouse game
If it does happen again and open DNS's and VPN's are blocked, I'll post what I can to enable folks to circumvent any bans. Hopefully, that wont happen.
JF
