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Outrunning China's Web Cops

Posted by Zonk on from the watch-out-for-replicants dept.

conq writes "BusinessWeek has an interesting story on an outfit, DIT, that provides people in China access to censored sites. To do this, 'the company distributes software, called FreeGate, which disguises the sites a person visits. In addition, DIT sends out mass e-mails to Chinese Web surfers for clients such as VOA, which is banned in China. The e-mails include a handful of temporary Web addresses that host off-limits content and springboards to other forbidden sites.'"

2 of 207 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Independent Satellite Television by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    China has jammers. Your Channel IST would quickly become little more than a Chinese TV Marti.

  2. Re:Somebody will fall for this! by 808140 · · Score: 4, Informative

    You're an idiot. I can access freebsd.org just fine, and I'm in China.

    Everytime a China-blocks-web-sites related article comes up, some moron gives a list of sites that are supposedly blocked in China. There are definitely blocked sites in China, and it's annoying as all get out, but at least 85% of the sites that Slashbots insist are "blocked in China" are perfectly accessible.

    Please, before shooting your mouth off, do a little research.

    Thanks.