One presentation notes that among uses of Tor for "general privacy" and "non-attribution", it can be used for "circumvention of nation state internet policies" – and is used by "dissidents" in "Iran, China, etc".
As such, it reflects both the profile of the individual entrepreneurs involved and the strategic circumvention of state-church requirements.
"I think it definitely warrants concern, and it's something the state treasurer should look into for potential circumvention of the state pay-to-play law," said Heather Taylor, a spokeswoman for the Citizens Campaign, which has led efforts in New Jersey to pass state and municipal pay-to-play rules.
Watching or listening to the American media, with all of the public sniping back and forth between American President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over Netanyahu's circumvention of standard protocol for a visiting head of state to speak before Congress, one would think that the U.S.-Israeli relationship was about to break apart.
As Heather Taylor, a spokeswoman for the group, has suggested, at the very least the state treasurer should "look into for potential circumvention" by state contractors making these donations.
Yet, encouragingly, faculty elsewhere, including at the University of Utah and the University of Arizona, have begun to raise strenuous objections to this kind of circumvention of standard governance and tampering with curriculum by wealthy donors and allied state legislators that seek to use public universities as an incubator for the next generation of partisan politicians.
Member States shall provide adequate legal protection against the circumvention of any effective technological measures, which the person concerned carries out in the knowledge, or with reasonable grounds to know, that he or she is pursuing that objective.
The internet allows circumvention of local censors.
For advice, see Preventing circumvention of OpenDNS with firewall rules.
Avoiding "circumvention" of the guidelines is also important.
