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Show HN: A different approach against online censorship

51 pointsby DonPellegrinoabout 11 years ago

5 comments

DonPellegrinoabout 11 years ago
I&#x27;d like some feedback about the idea and implementation. If you&#x27;ve got any ideas to make it better, I&#x27;d love to hear them.<p>The code is also on Github: <a href="https://github.com/SGrondin/unblock.us.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;SGrondin&#x2F;unblock.us.org</a>
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GutenYeabout 11 years ago
Even a VPN does not work in China, how can this one help? refer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VPN_blocking" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;VPN_blocking</a>
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willvarfarabout 11 years ago
Won&#x27;t countries that censor the web just sensor the DNS requests?
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oscargrouchabout 11 years ago
what if &quot;they&quot; just block DNS access to &quot;176.58.120.112&quot; ? (this needs to get very low-profile to work under the radar)
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higherpurposeabout 11 years ago
I think <a href="http://www.blockaid.me/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.blockaid.me&#x2F;</a> has been doing this, too, and I believe there were others.<p>Some other approaches I&#x27;ve seen are based on Namecoin somehow. DNSChain for example uses a custom &quot;regular&quot; DNS server to resolve .bit domains. So in works in a similar way, but in a much more distributed way, I think, because you can also create your own DNSChain server, and then be able to visit all of those .bit domains, once you use a DNSChain server&#x27;s IP.<p><a href="https://github.com/okTurtles/dnschain" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;okTurtles&#x2F;dnschain</a><p>Then there&#x27;s the FreeSpeechMe Firefox plugin that when installed also allows you to view .bit domains.<p><a href="http://www.freespeechme.org/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.freespeechme.org&#x2F;</a><p>My favorite right now is DNSChain, because it&#x27;s federated, but ideally, both Firefox and Chrome would have support for .bit domains built-in. Then as long as you&#x27;d be using these browsers, nobody could censor those .bit domains.<p>I doubt they will do it anytime soon, though, so until then the only browser that will do something like this seems to be the upcoming browser from ThePirateBay, which is meant primarily to save TPB from global censorship, but any website that&#x27;s compatible with their protocol will work within their browser, and while it won&#x27;t get the customer base of Chrome or Firefox, it should be a few million strong.<p><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/how-the-pirate-bay-plans-to-beat-censorship-for-good-140105/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;torrentfreak.com&#x2F;how-the-pirate-bay-plans-to-beat-cen...</a>
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