U.S. Funds Anonymizer for Iranians

SiliconEntity writes "British online rag The Register is reporting that the U.S. Government is funding anonymizer.com to provide anonymous browsing services to Iranians. Using U.S. funding, the company created a special version of its anonymizing proxy which has instructions in Farsi and only accepts connections from Iranian IP addresses. The service defaults to the Voice of America web site, but users can input any address and browse free of (Iranian) government censorship."

Comments

Fight the system.

[Anonymous Coward]

Could some Iranian please set up a proxy so that we can bounce back and use anonymizer for free. Thanks :-)

Re:freedom as tool

[phliar]

Why does our government work for the freedom of others, while chipping away at ours daily?

Well, where do you think that freedom we export comes from? It doesn't just grow on trees you know!

Re :It's understandable

[Black Parrot]

> I don't mind it at all...

> I do fine it ironic and irritating, though, that our own country (US) doesn't seem to like for us to do the same...trying to pass laws where anonymity, or falsifying online id in order to hide ones identity...

> If its good enough for US to pay for them to do it...should be open and good enough for us to use it in all our communications.

As Jay Leno said about the US plan for Iraq (paraphrasing) -

We're going to fix them up with fair elections, good education, and sound healthcare.

And if it works for them we'll try it over here too.

Re:Hell yeah...

[mentin]

After U.S. goverment approved so-called "Patriot Act" which allows it to spy what you write in your e-mails, what you read in a library, ...
I'm waiting for Iranian goverment to fund Anonymiser for U.S. citisens so they can browse the Web anonymously without fear of being spied by U.S. goverment.