Comments on: Weblogs without Censors

Weblogs without Censors

riffraff — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:11:49 -0800

Reporters Without Borders releases a free handbook for would-be bloggers and cyber-dissidents in censor-happy lands. It features tips on blogging anonymously, ways to get around censorship and to ensure your e-mail privacy, and hosts an Internet-censor World Championship list (which lists China, Vietnam, and Tunisia, among others) as well. Download the guide here. (PDF)

By: tpl1212

tpl1212 — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:26:00 -0800

I read a post from Harvard's Berkman Center about this this morning...they linked to a pretty nice review of the handbook from two of their fellows (Rebecca MacKinnon and Ethan Zuckerman)...which also gives a really good overview of the handbook (in case you're wary of downloading it)...

By: livii

livii — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 11:30:41 -0800

Great post, thanks! I've reposted the link elsewhere, this is a good one to share around.

By: destro

destro — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 11:30:57 -0800

Nice.. "How to blog anonymously" "Technical ways to get around censorship" If I didn't know any better i'd thnik this pamphlet was put out by Loopmanics.

By: JeffK

JeffK — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 11:31:43 -0800

I tried to download the pdf, but the url is blocked by my Chinese ISP.

By: Vaska

Vaska — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:29:33 -0800

The fact that my workplace just put in a draconian block system (Crappy Websense) today makes this post rather timely, thanks.

By: mrkredo

mrkredo — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 18:52:06 -0800

Very nice read.

By: taschenrechner

taschenrechner — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 21:50:24 -0800

This would be really good if I could get to it from inside China.

By: Treeline

Treeline — Sat, 24 Sep 2005 22:16:54 -0800

Those of you within China, go download and install TOR. It's cross platform, free as in BSD and invaluable for skirting the censors here. After installation and configuration you can visit BBC news, or any blocked site, anytime. It does slow things down a bit so I only use it when I need to. In OS X I've got a network location set up with the proper proxy settings so I can quickly (via the apple menu) switch between normal and anonymous internet use. I'm sure it's just as easy on other platforms. This isn't the only solution, but I feel it's the best.