Anti-Censorhip Tools for People in China
Net Censorship in China
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Useful Tools -- available to people within China
Useful Tools -- blocked by Chinese Government
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SafeWeb --
www.safeweb.com
Anonymous web surfing service,
using encryption to prevent snooping on content.
Useful Tools -- still in development or testing
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Triangle Boy --
www.triangleboy.com
Peer-to-peer method for redirecting traffic to Anonymous web surfing
service like Safeweb (see above).
Background
The nature, target, and consequences of censorship in China
are quite different from what we are used to in Canada.
In China, Internet Service Providers are either state-run or state-licensed
and cooperate fully with the government's desire to limit access
to certain kinds of information,
and presumably provide free access to web logs and contents of email messages.
Contrary to our domestic obsession and paranoia about sex and young people
and the resulting focus on child pornography,
in China, the state doesn't much care about pornography, ...
they care about political speech.
Apparently, access to
nytimes.com
is blocked, while access to
playboy.com
is not.
In Canada, people can be embarrassed, reprimanded, fired,
or in very rare cases,
jailed for accessing controversial/illegal information online.
In China, they can be killed.
Although we Canadians think it might be easy
to circumvent corporate/government control/censorship
with techniques like Anonymous Remailers, Anonymous Web Surfing,
Encrypted Email, etc., these methods are seldom used in Canada,
and it isn't clear they are robust enough and sufficiently easy to use
for your average person inside China who wants to
get political viewpoints outside their state-approved sources.
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