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P2P v. Censorship

Just as in the old days of USENET, the net still interprets censorship and damage and routes around:
Psiphon works through social networks. A net user in an uncensored country can download the program to their computer, which transforms it into an access point.

They can then give contacts in censored countries a unique web address, login and password, which enables the restricted users to freely browse the web through an encrypted connection to the proxy server.

Web censorship ‘bypass’ unveiled BBC, 27 Nov 2006

So even though Ahmedinejad or Castro may jail bloggers, people in Iran or Cuba could still see foreign bloggers. Continue reading