03/20/2008

Using the Web to Fight State Censorship

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I learned something today.  Images such as the one above from Tibet are "escaping" censored countries through the ingenuity of several people.  Although the Chinese government regularly shuts down YouTube and Google and others, these crafty individuals are using Psiphon to bypass government filters. 

According to CBC radio and CBC.ca, there are about 150,000 users who send content like this at the risk of their lives.  Without these modern day resistance fighters, we may never, I mean never see the other side of the story.  That to me is a powerful use of the web.
 
Vito Greto

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