[Web4lib] From the Chronicle: Software to Skirt Web Censorship

[Drew, Bill]

 This looks very interesting to me and is a service anti-censorship
librarians could help provide to people where access to certain websites
is blocked.  I wonder if this could be used to bypass local censorship
software (commonly called 'filters' by those looking to police
everything people do). -- Bill Drew

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Software to Skirt Web Censorship
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sorship> 


People in China, Cuba, Iran, and other countries where the government
censors what they see on the Internet could soon have access to a lot
more information. Citizen Lab, at the University of Toronto's Munk
Centre for International Studies, has announced that it will release
software <http://psiphon.civisec.org/>  on December 1 that allows people
in those countries to see blocked Web sites. The software, called
psiphon, allows someone in a country that doesn't censor the Internet to
send someone in a Web-censored country a URL that enables the recipient
to visit any Web site. --Andrea L. Foster