You Can't Stop Freedom

Oppressive regimes such as those in China and Iran have trouble coming and probably don't even know it. Allahpundit found this piece in the Toronto Star:

Others watching Psiphon's progress agree. "We've been trying to circumvent both the firewalls and the censorship surveillance," says Sharon Hom, executive director of New York-based Human Rights in China. "So it's something we are very, very interested in."

Psiphon takes the concept of a third-party computer doing the work yours can't because of censorship, and protects it by relying on trusted friends and close family, to create a program the creators say is nearly fail-safe.

The program is needed more than ever, as the number of countries that censor or filter the Internet continues to grow. China alone has reportedly spent hundreds of millions of dollars on its Great Firewall, as it's known outside the country. Thousands of people stand guard on it.

China blocks countless websites, from ones featuring porn to those devoted to Falun Gong, a spiritual movement banned in China. Anything on human rights is off-limits. Same for democracy.

Says Allahpundit:

The biggest problem for Psiphon is the fact that many people in totalitarian regimes don’t realize how much information is being censored (thanks in part to Google and Microsoft, let us not forget), and therefore aren’t likely to go looking for it.