Fight CensorshipFollow

I got an email on my Myspace account, and I get notified on my yahoo account that I got it, and due to my work’s stupid internet filter could not find out what it was. Thus I decided to see if there were ways to get around this $%^$% filter and started web searching.

I eventually found a site called peacefire.org dedicated to helping people get around these internet filters, especially the ones in China, but it applies to all.
There are two paths to doing it:
One involves setting up a circumventor website using simple software on a host computer connected to the web at all times that you visit and then can connect to any website through it, with the website name and ip masked this way is best for password security.
The second way is to go to a site already set up with a circumventor to do just that for all, not as password safe but if you are not using anything really important such as EBay or banks etc it should be fine.

I did the second way, and used a site that the original site recommended called stupidcensorship.com. I was able to connect to my myspace and I am sure I could visit lots of other filtered sites using this site. Its slower than the regular web and you have to wait sometimes when it’s full, but it gets the job done and fights censorship


Edited, Wed Jan 25 17:50:24 2006 by Danalog

Point taken, I did not mean to compare the plight of the Chinese to my inability to connect to myspace while at work or Debalic and BarkingTurtle's inability to connect to Allas while at work.

Does it make any difference the IT guy here at my work in charge of the internet filter is Chinese? Could he be a plant from Red China aimed at destroying American freedoms?

Quite simply, yes. In China it is an issue of censorship. At your workplace it is a security measure necessitated by millions of American workers who are too stupid to understand that the bullsh;t websites they surf all day while "earning" their medical coverage can have harmful and malicious software running that could, the horror, f'uck up a perfectly good multi-million dollar network.

Please tell me you are not so slow and obtuse as to fail at life by missing the point and the distinction.

So that would be a no then?

See, I was going to write something like this, albeit less wordy and more aggressive(ie. vulgar), but then decided that doing so would make me a hypocrite. Being "the computer guy" at work lets me slack off at work and do inappropriate things with my PC while I still get to give other people **** about it.

as a matter of fact it makes all the differance in the world.

in China the citizens are subject to prison and worse for trying to get information in or out of their country.

when you are at work, you are supposed to be doing WORK, not playing around on the internet. you chose to work there, you knew the conditions prior to starting and you have the FREEDOM to walk up to your boss and turn in your resignation at any time.

you are being paid, how ever much, to do a job, not to play around on the internet. so go do your job, and stop ******** about tough IT policies that are in place to protect the owners of the company from increased IT cost for having to clean up the cr4p you can bring into the network by navigating to web pages that are not alowed by the company IT dept.

Yeah, fu[b][/b]ck 'censorship', when my boss says "HEY! DO THIS!", I say "HEY! Blow me!" and then I uppercut him in the ***** with a very sharp allen key.

Rawr.

The folks at my part-time job are pretty much computer-illiterate, but there are five computers there, which they all hijack at various times during the day to do everything from look up plane tickets to check email, to sign up for eharmony. No joke. In any case, one ******* managed to click on some popup that meant he accepted a subscription to a movie site. The result is that some blonde kept coming up and talking about his subscription having expired and needing his credit card. My manager thought she had a virus and was panicking. The corporate guys were coming in the next day, so I got to spend the bulk of my day googling fixes, installing updates and such because I know what is a virus versus what is just some moron that shouldn't be allowed near a PC because he can't avoid malware.

There are thousands like him. If you can get around your company's security, good for you, but don't spread the wealth to people who will ultimately vomit on your pearls of wisdom.

Edited, Thu Jan 26 07:47:13 2006 by Atomicflea