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

[David Honig]

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.