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Knocking Down the Great Firewall of China
New submitter Nocturrne writes: The FOSS project Lantern is having great success in unblocking the internet for many users in oppressive regimes, like China and Iran. Much like Tor and BitTorrent, Lantern is using peer-to-peer networking to overcome firewalls, but with the additional security of a trusted network of friends. "If you download Lantern in an uncensored region, you can connect with someone in a censored region, who can then access whatever content they want through you. What makes the system so unique is that it operates on the basis of trust. ... Through a process called consistent routing, the amount of information any single Lantern user can learn about other users is limited to a small subset, making infiltration significantly more difficult." The network of peers is growing, but we need more friends in uncensored countries to join us.
Its not our job to knock it down. Its the job of the chinese citizens.
I know it sounds un-American and like I'm not a team player in the Us Vs Them battle, but fuck it, not my job.
Who gives you the right to impress your concepts of right and wrong onto the citizens of another sovereign nation and its people?
How would you feel if another country did it to you?
---- Booth was a patriot ----