One of the few ways that citizens can get around china’s censorship of the internet is using symbols instead of letters. An example of this is using @ instead of a. The Chinese government hasn't blocked sites that use these symbols. They have only blocked sites that use letters.
The cloud hosting service is an easy way to get past the Chinese censor i the way that you can mirror a site and host it on a cloud hosting service which is a way to get past the firewall in that the only way to shut those off is that china would then have to shut down all the other cloud service hosting so no more Gmail and various other important things.
A VPN is a Virtual Private Network that uses a private connection to the internet that cannot be restricted by a government the only problem is that these are expensive even in america and they are not easy to get. A proxy server is more cost effective but not as easy to do and can be used for much worse things than just looking at censored sites.
Tor is another method that is used to bypass China’s firewall. Tors basically allow someone to browse anonymously. A tor diverts your web browsing over an encrypted network before it comes out at an endpoint. Many tors work even when VPNs, proxies, and SSH tunnels won’t work.
SSH tunnels are very useful when trying to get around the Chinese firewall. Basically, a SSH server allows you to browse the internet with no censorship. A SSH tunnel allows you to connect to this server from anywhere. The service may be a little slower, but there won’t be any blocked sites.
The Lantern project is something that the previous creator of Limewire made that helps someone get past the censor by allowing others to donate bandwidth to people using the project like in the peoples republic of China. This is just expensive to do and just like a proxy server can be used to do something much worse than its intended purpose.
I never knew about these ways to get around censorship. I think it's really cool that people in the west can help the Chinese people get around the censorship with The Lantern Project.
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