Re: News: "U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship"

At 09:01 AM 8/30/01 -0700, Tim May wrote:

This report says the U.S. Gov't. has plans to make "SafeWeb," the Web proxy company it helped fund through the CIA, available to Chinese citizens who want to bypass their government's censorship.

So, what happens when Iran decides to finance systems in the U.S. to bypass U.S.G. censorship (e.g., of talk by freedom fighters)? Or when Denmark finances a system to bypass crackdowns on teen erotica in the U.S.? And so on.

Yep. Note that its not all altruism/subversion; its also intelligence, the USG gets to monitor what the Chinese middle class are really interested in. Beyond what the spooks already know.