Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Blogging from the recent Free Expression in Asian Cyberspace conference (FEAC, Manila, Apr. 19-21), Ethan Zuckerman of Harvard's Berkman Institute wrote a succinct overview of current thinking on how to subvert the Chinese government's censorship of the internet for its citizens. See: Technical approaches to censorship in Asia.

Zuckerman wrote that in a conference session, pioneering Chinese blogger Isaac Mao "Offers some thoughts on the future of tunnels through the great firewall. He's interested in 'social relaying' -- using individual relationships in a peer-to-peer model to tunnel through the firewall without relying on a central server."

Also from FEAC, Zuckerman reported that presenter Nart Villeneuve claimed "BBC is blocked [by censoring governments] far more often than comparable news sites like Fox or CNN. Why? Because they create local language content which is considered more dangerous that English language content."

Hmmm.... Maybe the BBC might be interested in digging some peer-to-peer "tunnels."

Today, Villeneuve elaborated on other strategies to get around Chinese net censorship. See: Is there a way to circumvent Google's censorship in China?

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