Techies strive to provide tools to circumvent Internet censorship

EFF’s Seth Schoen says that governments are constantly on the move to censor the web, recently forcing ISPs to censor sites from the DNS. They are counting on the users not realizing censorship is happening and that users will not know how to bypass the censors. Governments are also using the Internet to monitor the content of individual expression.

The second edition of How to Bypass Internet Censorship, available online at no cost, provides tools for evading censorship in a wide variety of situations and outlines the risks and limits of different methods. -db

From a commentary from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, May 16, 2011, by Seth Schoen.

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