Monday, January 21, 2008

How to get around Internet censorship

Last week - in a rare flush of public-spiritedness - I wrote a post on Froogville detailing all the methods I have found for circumventing the Chinese government's attempts to prevent me from visiting "un-harmonious" websites. (That really is the Communist Party's favoured buzzword; but it has already been adopted by the blogging community here as mocking slang - "You've been harmonized!" is a common euphemism for 'censored'.... 'warned off'..... 'blocked'..... 'closed down'..... 'imprisoned'......)

Please go and check out that post (or the sidebar on Froogville) if you want to know more.

However, the simplest method of all I will add a link to in the sidebar here. It's a proxy site called Kallahar's Place: it's quick, easy, reliable, does not require any downloads..... and, unusually for a proxy server, it gives you access to secure webpages, thus allowing you to comment on blogs or order stuff on Amazon, etc. Note, however, that of the three proxy 'methods' supplied on this page, only Method #2 works. Also, there's a glitch that makes it difficult to navigate back to this page from the proxified sites you've visited - the trick is to click 'Refresh'. (Actually, this hiccup now seems to have been sorted out.)

Do give it a go - it renders virtually the entire Internet readily accessible even here in censhorship-ridden China.

2 comments:

Chris Eldin said...

I'm in Dubai. I am soo visiting your tips section!
;-)

Froog said...

Well, thank you. I hope it's of help.