Attack On the 5th Estate

Now with astro turfing,radical spin, and just plain sculdugger Journalism is again under attack. Here is one way that the internet can fight these attacks on a free press and ultimaly our freedom:
| How to Dodge the Chinese Internet Censor |
| from the avoiding-older-brother dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Thursday October 18, @09:18 (Censorship) |
| http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/18/1254236 |
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[0]eweekhickins writes "A report written by a tech worker in China
describes the [1]pervasive censorship, abetted by ample manpower and
funding estimated at $27 billion in US dollars. The author, who calls
himself Mr. Tao, also writes that plenty of Chinese are finding ways to
resist censorship, and offers tips on how to keep evading Big GeGe
(that's Older Brother). Not surprisingly, self-censorship is very
prevalent. Also not surprisingly, the authorities are starting to catch
on to things like RSS feeds. It's another race for survival between the
tiny mammals and the lumbering dinosaurs." Here's [2]Mr. Tao's report
(PDF), written under the auspices of Reporters Without Borders.

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Links:
0. http://blogs.eweek.com/epiphanies/
1. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2198093,00.asp
2. http://www.rsf.org/IMG/pdf/Voyage_au_coeur_de_la_censure_GB.pdf
This is from the Geek website slashdot.org via Reporters Without Borders
See you on Monday.