Collateral freedom
Collateral freedom is an anti-censorship strategy that attempts to make it economically prohibitive for censors to block content on the Internet.[1][2][3] This is achieved by hosting content on cloud services that are considered by censors to be "too important to block," and then using encryption to prevent censors from identifying requests for censored information that is hosted among other content, forcing censors to either allow access to the censored information or take down entire services.[4][5][6][7][8][9]
See also
[edit]- Cute cat theory of digital activism
- Domain fronting
- Lantern (software)
- Refraction networking
- Telex (anti-censorship system)
References
[edit]- ^ Robinson, David; Yu, Harlan; An, Anne. "Collateral Freedom - A Snapshot of Chinese Internet Users Circumventing Censorship" (PDF). Open Internet Tools Project. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-07-18. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
- ^ "Collateral Freedom FAQ | GreatFire Analyzer". en.greatfire.org. Retrieved 2017-01-04.
- ^ "Greatfire - Expanding Collateral Freedom | Open Technology Fund". www.opentech.fund. Retrieved 2017-01-04.
- ^ Weaver, Nicholas (5 June 2015). "How China's 'Great Cannon' works". CNN. Retrieved 2017-01-04.
- ^ Hern, Alex (2016-04-14). "GreatFire activist urges western firms to help end Chinese censorship". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-01-04.
- ^ Russell, Jon (30 March 2015). "These Activists Are Plotting To End Internet Censorship In China". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2017-01-04.
- ^ "Collateral Freedom – how we are doing it | Collateral Freedom". 12mars.rsf.org. Reporters Without Borders. Archived from the original on 2017-01-04. Retrieved 2017-01-04.
- ^ "Reporters Without Borders unblocks access to censored websites". BetaNews. 2015-03-12. Retrieved 2017-01-04.
- ^ "Internet activists are finding ways around China's Great Firewall". Washington Post. Retrieved 2017-01-04.