U.S. Sponsors Anti-Censorship Web Service

U.S. Sponsors Anti-Censorship Web Service
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2003-08-26

A pact between the U.S. government and the electronic privacy company Anonymizer, Inc. is making the Internet a safer place for controversial websites and subversive opinions -- if you're Iranian.

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U.S. Sponsors Anti-Censorship Web Service 2003-08-27
CloseMinded

Let's give anonymity (and freedom of learning the "American Dream") only to the rich (and of course politically powerful) Iranian population ! In the other side, let's continue to limit the freedom of any American citizen, imposing new limitative laws !...

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now europe should help us citizens 2003-08-27
Anonymous

> A bill that passed the U.S. House of Representatives last month would

> create an Office of Global Internet Freedom that would have up to a

> $50 million annual budget to help citizens of foreign repressive

> governments skirt Internet censorship.

ok, now in europe we should get a gran...

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U.S. Sponsors Anti-Censorship Web Service 2003-08-27
Anonymous

maybe the US government should make one of these available for french and german citizens, too.

-a...

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U.S. Sponsors Anti-Censorship Web Service 2003-08-27
Anonymous

The government sponsors free speech in other places while it works to keep people from talking with-in our own borders ........

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U.S. Sponsors Anti-Censorship Web Service 2003-08-27
florian koenig

where is the problem for a state like china or iran to block this ip for iran-web-users and concurrently flood this webserver with forged source-address url-request's ? How will the usa monitor that ? net-abnormalie,then the usa will fetch user informations,or?...

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U.S. Sponsors Anti-Censorship Web Service 2003-08-27
Anonymous American

Is it me or did anyone else question why we are paying for these people to have "unsensored" internet access. The only good reason I can see this could be good for is for them to access "our side of the story" news. I still think it may be a waste of taxpayer's money....

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U.S. Sponsors Anti-Censorship Web Service 2003-08-27
Anonymous

God bless the U.S.A...

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U.S. Sponsors Anti-Censorship Web Service 2003-08-27
Anonymous

Isn't it funny that the US Government is now sponsoring a site previously vilified, only days after word contained in this article hit the net... http://www.securityfocus.com/news/6779 . Irony?...

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U.S. Sponsors Anti-Censorship Web Service 2003-08-27
Anonymous

$50 million to supply free internet to foreign nationals?!?!

What school, homeless child, jobless person, etc., is being deprived to support this B.S.?!

When the hell are the taxpayers of this country going to start forcing those dicks in Washington to start improving the state of this country...

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U.S. Sponsors Anti-Censorship Web Service 2003-08-27
Anonymous

Be sure to add Saudi Arabia to the list...

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U.S. Sponsors Anti-Censorship Web Service 2003-08-27
Anonymous (1 replies)

From the CensorBlog

http://thehacktivist.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=CensorBlog&file=index

Using two proxy servers (port 3128 & 8080) falling within the IP range of Iran:

inetnum: 217.218.0.0 - 217.219.255.255

netname: IR-DCC-20010403

descr: Telecommunication Company of Iran (TCI)

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Re: U.S. Sponsors Anti-Censorship Web Service 2006-11-24
Anonymous

not sure which iran your talking about... the iran i'm writing from, all the above mentioned websites are filtered on a national level.

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U.S. Sponsors Anti-Censorship Web Service 2003-08-28
Anonymous

I think it's great that they're doing this, making the internet free range like it should be. but at the same time I think it's a little hipocritical how on one hand we're "helping" internet freedom... and with the other groups like the MPAA and RIAA are all smashing our privacy and freedom. Why don...

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U.S. Sponsors Anti-Censorship Web Service 2003-08-29
Anonymous

Great! So when can Americans take advantage of this new freedom--seeing as how we seem to have our own blacklist (DeCSS and other 'illegal' stuff)...now all we need is China doing the same for us poor Americans!...

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U.S. Sponsors Anti-Censorship Web Service 2003-08-29
Anonymous

>But the United States' hope is that a freer

>flow of online information will improve

>America's image in the Arab world."

The first time i watched american television , I saw Jerry Springer... !!

So , Cheers to the Image Improvement ...

> create an Office of Global Internet Freedom

>...

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U.S. Sponsors Anti-Censorship Web Service 2003-08-29
Sam

It is all good and God bless America, but it would be good if the US government spend some money educating some of their own people such as Mr.Berman who can not differentiate between Iran and Arab World countries!!!!! You are 1500 miles off track for god????.

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U.S. Sponsors Anti-Censorship Web Service 2003-09-01
Hendrix

Can you imagin what would happen is some government tried to do some thing like this to the US itself, ohhhhh talk about double standards. Gits!...

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U.S. Sponsors Anti-Censorship Web Service 2003-09-02
Asaph

nice to see that the US government fails to realize the irony and contradiction in providing anonymous "free speech" access only to those sites they don't find morally reprehensible....

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