Getting Around Web Censors With Flickr

An anonymous reader writes "Life is about to become more difficult for countries trying to censor access to foreign websites. A system dubbed Collage will allow users in these countries to download stories from blocked sites while visiting seemingly uncontroversial sites such as Flickr." For visual learners: this earlier story at GigaOM explains the system with a diagram.

Comments

Possession == crime

[grub]

Countries which censor the Internet will have no problem labelling this as a "subversion tool" (or something similar) and make possession of it a crime.

sad but true.

This will just get sites like Flickr banned

[Anonymous Coward]

This will just get sites like Flickr banned in places like China, Iran, or Australia; and nothing else will change

bottleneck?

[johnhp]

How does pushing content through a few major sites help spread it in censored areas? It seems like an authoritarian government could ban a few major websites more easily than hundreds of smaller ones.

Maybe a torrent-like web server would be best for sharing censored information, where trusted web servers in free countries are the only uploaders on the network.

Re:bottleneck?

[betterunixthanunix]

Or, a repressive government could ban the tool itself, and imprison anyone who possesses it. Why would a repressive government have a problem making possession a crime?