Attack the Cyberwalls!: The Internet Is the Pathway to Democracy in Places Like Iran

Sen. Arlen Specter Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA July 7, 2009

"A number of organizations have developed software that can be used to bypass the most sophisticated Internet restrictions. The most prominent is the Global Internet Freedom Consortium, creators of the software used by Iranians to communicate both internally and with the outside world during the election crisis. The Consortium also developed ways around China's efforts to censor the Internet, neutralizing its so-called "Golden Shield" and "Green Dam" barriers."
Defeat the Internet Berlin Wall

By Brent Budowsky The Hill - Washington,DC,USA 07/07/09

"Groups such as the Global Internet Freedom Consortium are making these technologies available to many people in many places. Great minds in universities around the world are inventing new technologies to use the Internet to keep the truth beyond the reach of Big Brother."
Falun Gong helps crack Iran's web filter

By Desmond Ang for Radio Australia Posted Thu Jul 2, 2009 1:28pm AEST

Computer software invented to beat China's stringent internet controls is being used by pro-democracy activists in Iran to manoeuvre around authorities there.
Developed and managed by a team of volunteers from the Falun Gong spiritual group, Freegate was created to allow net users to bypass Beijing government censorship.
Countering China's Internet Censors

By Joel Schectman, BusinessWeek June 3, 2009, 8:48PM EST

As the Chinese government restricts access to controversial Web sites in the runup to the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests, the country's Web surfers are finding creative ways around the censors. Companies that offer technologies for viewing blocked sites and hiding online communications say they have seen a spike in demand over the past month.
20 years after Tiananmen, China containing dissent online

Owen Fletcher, Computerworld > IDG News Service 29.05.2009

The Internet has brought new hope to reformists in China since the country crushed pro-democracy protests in the capital 20 years ago. But as dissidents have gone high-tech, the government in turn has worked to restrict free speech on the Internet, stifling threats to its rule that could grow online.
Green Dam to Be Hit by Green Tsunami

By NTDTV 2009-6-19 12:39

And for more on Green Dam—and how anti-censorship groups are working to stop it—we go to Matt Gnaizda in the studio.
A new program created by a group of Chinese Americans will permanently uninstall the Chinese regime’s controversial “Green Dam Youth Escort” censorship software—which is set to be installed on all computers sold in China starting in July.
This new anti-Green Dam software is called Green Tsunami. It was developed by the Global Internet Freedom Consortium, and they’re making it available for free.
We have on Skype with us Bill Xia. His company is one of the Consortium’s members. He’s asked us not to record video of him for safety reasons.
Sunday Forum: Our brave new cyber world / Online toward democracy

By Anita Dufalla/Post-Gazette Sunday, June 07, 2009

"Expansion of Internet freedom technology lacks only the support and will of free societies to protect freedom against those who would deny it. With an extremely modest investment, the global Internet protocols created by such "Davids" as Shiyu Zhou, Peter Li and Bill Xia could be scaled up to achieve a "tipping point" capacity able to serve 100 million unique users per day. Such firewall-smashing protocols as Freegate, DynaWeb and UltraSurf, which are now available to a few million, would be in the hands of so many residents of closed societies as to make futile any attempt by their governments to block free expression."
Internet censorship fight goes global

By James O'Toole, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Thursday, June 04, 2009

As the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square upheaval approached, Internet users in China found new restrictions on access to Web sites offering accounts or commentary on the June 4, 1989, crackdown that brought the deaths of hundreds of demonstrators.

The New York Times and The Guardian reported that even social networking sites such as Twitter were blocked throughout China this week. Reuters reported that Hotmail similarly went dark across the country. The cyber censorship is nothing new, in China or elsewhere. One research and advocacy group, the OpenNet Initiative, reports that more than 25 countries have some kind of political or governmental censorship of the Web.
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