The Global Internet Freedom Consortium (GIFC) announced that their anti-censorship software tools are ready to help journalists and tourists during the Olympics, to circumvent China’s Internet blockade. The software, which is available free of charge, can be downloaded onto a hard drive or USB drive to safely and effectively overcome the Internet censorship in China.
In the run-up to Olympics, Beijing tightened control over media and Internet. Overseas web sites that have keywords on Beijing’s blacklist are blocked and cannot be visited from China without any “anti-censorship” tools. The decision to block access to these websites is in contravention to Beijing’s earlier promises to grant unrestricted Internet access to foreign reporters during the Games, and will seriously impede reporters’ ability to do their work in Beijing. Although web restrictions were relaxed to some degree, it is unclear how long these conditions will last.
In order to overcome these Internet restrictions and gain free access to the Internet in China, the GIFC recommends that journalists and tourists download the free software packages by its partners. All Internet traffic through the tools is encrypted and can successfully bypass the Internet blockades in repressive nations around the world.
Originally posted on August 5, 2008 @ 4:15 pm
It is just unbelievable that there are governments controlling the lives of people this way. Makes you glad you’re in a free society. (For the most part.) Very interesting article in terms of having to use special software to circumvent Chinese controls of the internet for foreign journalists. To be honest that just seems really strange that a nation wants to host the olympics but is acting so backwards socially with its guests that it impedes the ability of news agencies to report on the games. Unbelievable.
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i want to breake the filter of my internet network