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By Douglas MacMillan and Pavel Alpeyev,Bloomberg June 10, 2010, 1:10 AM EDT
June 10 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc., which moved its Chinese site offshore to avoid local censorship rules, said the U.S. and European Union governments should press China on Internet restrictions as they represent barriers to trade.

By Caylan Ford washingtonpost.com > Opinions Wednesday, January 20, 2010; 2:14 PM

"But if the State Department and internet giants really want to promote free access to the Internet worldwide, the most effective thing they could do is to support the Global Internet Freedom Consortium (GIF). "

By Bruce Einhorn, BusinessWeek September 30, 2009, 10:46AM EST

"Part of the campaign to ensure a smooth anniversary includes an intensified effort to limit access to China's Internet, say anti-censorship activists outside the country. "They have tried everything they can" to block software that helps people evade censorship, says Bill Xia, president of U.S.-based Dynamic Internet Technology, a company that has developed Freegate, software that enables users to circumvent censors by rerouting traffic through proxy servers. While there's always a high level of censorship in China, says Xia, the campaign ahead of National Day this year is more comprehensive than usual. "This time they have really put a lot of resources to this," he says."

Epoch Times Staff Sep 24, 2009

U.S-based Dynamic Internet Technology (DIT) launched more powerful anti-Internet censorship software on Sept. 22, partially as a response to the Chinese regime’s intensified Internet censorship and surveillance before the upcoming National Day celebration.

Owen Fletcher, IDG News Service Sep 25, 2009 5:30 am

Security forces with black masks and machine guns on the streets of China's capital are just the more visible side of a security clampdown in the country this month: there is also its secretive battle to control the Internet.

The heightened security comes ahead of a massive military parade Beijing will hold in the heart of the city next week to celebrate China's 60th anniversary of communist rule, an event the government hopes will showcase the country's development and go untarnished by security threats or shows of dissent. China's newest nuclear missiles will be included in the arsenal of weapons and equipment shown off in the parade, according to state-run media.

By Jim Finkle 2009-08-19 16:26:16 GMT (Reuters)

" Tor competes with several other technologies, including one known as Freegate, which China's banned Falun Gong movement developed to allow its members to communicate in secrecy.
Freegate runs on a dedicated network paid for by a U.S.-based company that owns the product, Dynamic Internet Technology, which is run by members of Falun Gong.
DIT also sells an e-mail service that evades spam-filters installed to weed out correspondence related to human rights and other sensitive topics. Customers include the Voice of America and Human Rights in China."

By DAVID FEITH JULY 23, 2009, 11:20 P.M. ET

This month, amid record profligacy on Capitol Hill, Sens. Sam Brownback (R., Kan.) and Arlen Specter (D., Pa.) pushed for spending that all Americans can celebrate: $30 million of the Senate’s State Department appropriations bill will go to support digital tools for undermining Internet censorship. If the initiative is properly implemented, the politically repressed from Havana to Rangoon will have cause for celebration.

Authoritarian regimes spend fortunes censoring the Internet because they fear the subversive potential of digital communications. China and Iran are world leaders in this regard—models for other rogues such as Syria and Saudi Arabia.

By Lucy Hornby , BEIJING (Reuters) Mon Jul 20, 2009 4:22am EDT

Ten years after a government crackdown drove it underground in China, Falun Gong is trying to position itself to get U.S. government funds to help defeat Internet censors worldwide.
The spiritual group's efforts to stay in contact with its members in China spawned a sophisticated effort to evade Chinese censors, which has now expanded enough that it was used by Iranian protesters to get around government controls in June.

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."

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."