Defeating China's "Great" Firewall

“I guess it is not so “great” anymore!” - Digg User

The blog “Lightblue Touch Paper” explains how to get around the “GREAT” firewall of China.

I've heard of other ways to search around it as well.  Here are some comment from Bruce Schneier.com. 

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I believe that the Chinese government will ultamitely not be capable of supressing the Chinese people's thirst for unrestricted knowlege.  Although, it is human nature to do what is easiest and follow the heard like sheep, it is also human nature to resist repression.

  There is only so much human beings can take.  I'm reminded of Shawshank Redemption in wich the title character mentions “time and pressure”.  Time and pressure is all it takes for a person to break.  Time and pressure. 

I'm sure the Chinese government would not call what they are doing “repression”.  They'd probably called it “protection”.  Or maybe they don't call it anything!  Internet censorship is not restricted to China.  The U.S. government also has restrictions on certain pages and content on the Internet.  Do enough searches about “terroism” and you might even get contacted by the FBI.  Fear is the driving factor for security in this country.  Blanket censorship is something I definitely DO NOT support. 

I guess only individuals can be free and only truly free in their own heart, souls and minds.  With all the breaches of privacy (or should I say complete lack of privacy) between the individual citizens in the US and the US gov't, how “free” and different is the U.S. government from the China govenment at the fundamental level?

The is a difference (freedom of speech for example) no doubt, but it seems as China moves toward freedom (with its entrance into the WTO and movement toward capitalism) the U.S. seems to be moving toward more control over its citizens as it seeks to sift though its sheep to find the wolves in sheeps clothing.

See what the International Current Affairs Society had to say:

“A group of intrepid H4X0rz have discovered how to easily bypass the Chinese governments censorship of words like 'democracy'.”

From a Chinese perspective of the GFW

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