CCFF: Experience the censored Chinese internet at home!

[Meierhans]

The new "China Channel Firefox Add-on" from Aram Bartholl, Evan Roth and Tobias Leingruber allows you to see how the internet looks from inside a system that tries to keep certain things hidden.

http://chinachannel.hk/

From what I red it basicly routes your traffic trough a real chinese proxy server, so what you see should be exactly what people from inside china get. I´m pretty sure this could also be done by hand by filling in the proxy in network settings, but with this tool everybody can see how it feels if information gets filtered with just 2 clicks.

Very nice idea indeed. I wish it was that easy the other way.

(218.25.251.170 ... I know... nobody can see inside a heavy encrypted HTTP tunnel... but its still possible to detect the tunnel as such...)

[BIOPTIX]

Well soon you won't have to add-on anything to experience internet censorship, just ask the Australians:

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24568137-2862,00.html

Of course porn and child abuse are to blame, oh and euthanasia and anorexia.

[vdmoKstaTi]

BIOPTIX,

Yeah, we are aware of this. Its obviously will censor more then just some porn sites, any critical thinking is highly at risk as far as I'm concerned.

http://nocleanfeed.com/
is a website set up, among many other coming I would presume to raise the awareness and set up steps to take action against this.

I can send few letters out and express my concerns with few groups and contact my ISP's and some people within the industry, big government takes on its own role of control without any democratic approach to this and ALWAYS supporting its own action by limited number of voices from select few minority groups or some Christian loons. You can almost expect those to show up in they statement as to why they doing... Awwwwwwwwwww, they are sooo concerned.