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| Subject: Operation Collateral (Pseudo) Freedom: US Sponsored Reporters Without Borders unblocks access to censored websites Fri Mar 13, 2015 12:00 am | |
| As part of Operation Collateral Freedom, Reporters Without Borders is mirroring the likes of The Tibet Post International which is blocked in China, and Gooya News which is blocked in Iran. Mirrored sites are hosted on Amazon, Microsoft and Google servers which are unlikely to be blocked by a censoring country.
While it would still be possible to block access to the mirrored sites, the fact that they are hosted on such popular servers means that there would be massive knock-on effects for other much-used services. Encryption is also in use to help prevent the risk of blocking by keyword.
Reporters Without Borders is waging war on the "Enemies of the Internet" which includes Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, China, Cuba, Iran, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. The full list of sites that make up Operation Collateral Freedom are:
Grani.ru, blocked in Russia
Fergananews.com blocked in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan
The Tibet Post, blocked in China
Dan Lam Bao, blocked in Vietnam
Mingjing News, blocked in China
Hablemos Press, blocked in Cuba
Gooya News, blocked in Iran
Gulf Centre for Human Rights, blocked in United Arab Emirates
Bahrain Mirror, blocked in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia
http://betanews.com/2015/03/12/reporters-without-borders-unblocks-access-to-censored-websites/ |
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