AIDG Blog [Appropriate Technology, Development, Environment]

In December, I wrote about the Great Firewall of China and my worries over whether AIDG was being blocked (plus ways to get around the censors with proxy servers). Well, we are.

Check if your site or a site you like is blocked at http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/.

At first it feels like a fun game (or maybe that’s just me). “See if you are deemed worthy of being censored.” And then reality swiftly returns and you realize that the Chinese government is actively denying its citizens access to information.

For more info on this issue:
Human Rights in China ( a great non-profit. The ED is awesome!)

A good proxy server:
http://anonymouse.ws/anonwww.html

How to access a blocked site - Digital Inspiration
Handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents - Reporters without Borders

Also to see a good clip on Google and Cisco’s involvement in censorship in China:
Frontline’s the Tank Man. See Clip 6: The Struggle to Control Information

via Foreign Policy Blog

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