The Voice of America is working with a leading anti-censorship activist to develop easy-to-use, easy-to-install circumvention web server software package. The target is China, which routinely blocks whatever web sites it feels are a threat. But it could also work elsewhere.
Including, ironically, as a way for people to circumvent site blocking software at home, in libraries, or (ahem) at work.
Interesting.
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This is ironic:
That’s the page that came up when I hit the link.
Msnbc-cnet.com.com? Bizarre.
Sounds like a good reason to be working from home …
If you could get Microsoft to sell it, maybe it will convice the Chi-coms to pirate it and take care of the distribution for you!
C-Net owns the com.com domain.
It’s not a big deal. I’ve poked around quite a bit already and run into few domains that hit a wall — most of which are domains for movies and that sort of thing… ebay, and I suppose I can see why cnet would be, since you’re really usually there to buy stuff or because you’re thinking about it.
Wonder if amazon is blocked…
Huh. I regularly go to CNet for tech news, sometimes for software downloads, only occasionally for tech purchases.
While it’s irritating that my own employer blocks POP3 through the firewall, its restrictions on web sites are pretty limited to porn (probably because those IPs get shifted around so quickly, it’s too easy to block a legitimate vendor or client’s page) and, oddly, The Onion.
My bad — it wasn’t the CNET article that was blocked, it was the link from “Yesterday’s Cities of Tomorrow.”
Okay, that I can understand better — particularly given some of the ads down at the bottom of the page.