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Reporters Without Borders Unblocks Access To Censored Websites
Mark Wilson writes Online censorship is rife. In many countries, notably China, citizens are prevented from accessing certain websites at the behest of their government. To help provide access to information and unbiased news, freedom of information organization Reporters Without Borders has set up mirrors to nine censored websites so they can be accessed from 11 countries that blocked them. As part of Operation Collateral Freedom, Reporters Without Borders is mirroring the likes of The Tibet Post International which is blocked in China, and Gooya News which is blocked in Iran. Mirrored sites are hosted on Amazon, Microsoft and Google servers which are unlikely to be blocked by a censoring country.
This is a fucking insult to Médecins Sans Frontières.
Couldn't they just block the individual URLs, filter from search results, etc?
Because there's no way China will block Google is there...
To help provide access to information and unbiased news, ...
Unbiased news - I am not familiar with that. Could someone suggests an actual unbiased news source?
Or is U.S. copyright law the only worldwide law that applies to the internet?
You gotta to understand the rules of the game, my friend
Drink the koolaid, drink a lot of it !
Repeat after me:
'News' from the Western media must be *UNBIASED*, while news from other news outlets, be it from China or Cuba or Russia or Iran must be 100% *BIASED*
forbidden islamists websites
A list of forbidden websites must be set !
Why would a French organization help the US, when France has butted heads with the US on foreign policy for so long? And Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and UAE are on the list, contrary to your assertion. Maybe not enough? Certainly they block more than just 2 sites, and China blocks more than just 3. Maybe you'd like to add more?
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If those fuckers can be honest to themselves they ought to rename themselves as the "Reporters who hate Chinese"
Helping Chinese citizens access websites despite their government's censorship is "hating Chinese"? In what universe?
Even if it's true that the group acts more against unallied governments than against allied governments (I have no idea if this allegation is true), why does that mean it's a bad thing that they are helping people in SOME countries with censorship (even if not ALL countries with censorship)?
Seems like ought to rename yourself to "Anonymous Coward who hates Reporters Without Borders".
Mirrored sites are hosted on Amazon, Microsoft and Google servers which were, before this move, unlikely to be blocked by a censoring country.
FTFThem.
Mirrored sites are hosted on Amazon, Microsoft and Google servers which are unlikely to be blocked by a censoring country.
LOL ROTFLOL oh you poor naive person, you.
I wonder when China or some other country is going to get so fed up with playing whack-a-mole with these banned websites that they decide to go to a default-deny model, where no one in the country can access any web page unless the web page is specifically allowed by the censors.
"The professor drew an analogy between the Reporters Without Borders initiative and the news that websites listing proxies for the file-sharing site Pirate Bay had been blocked in the UK."
Could they maybe unblock TPB in the UK?
China is the greatest! Five thousand years! Rule the world! My precious!
Happy now, fuck tart?
... where idiotic, brainwashed media-loving cretins like to CENSOR anything that disagrees with the lies they've been taught by JEWS all their lives...
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Reporters Without Borders is not a French group, it's mostly a creation of the US State Department. You're thinking of Doctors Without Borders, which actually does some worthwhile work.
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