Collateral freedom explained
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]
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Notes and References
- Web site: Collateral Freedom - A Snapshot of Chinese Internet Users Circumventing Censorship . Open Internet Tools Project . 28 December 2016 . Robinson, David . Yu, Harlan . An, Anne . https://web.archive.org/web/20130718065958/http://openitp.org/pdfs/CollateralFreedom.pdf . 2013-07-18 .
- Web site: Collateral Freedom FAQ GreatFire Analyzer. en.greatfire.org. 2017-01-04.
- Web site: Greatfire - Expanding Collateral Freedom Open Technology Fund. www.opentech.fund. 2017-01-04.
- Web site: How China's 'Great Cannon' works. Nicholas . Weaver. CNN. 5 June 2015. 2017-01-04.
- News: GreatFire activist urges western firms to help end Chinese censorship. Hern. Alex. 2016-04-14. The Guardian. en-GB. 0261-3077. 2017-01-04.
- Web site: These Activists Are Plotting To End Internet Censorship In China. Russell. Jon. TechCrunch. 30 March 2015 . 2017-01-04.
- Web site: Collateral Freedom – how we are doing it Collateral Freedom. 12mars.rsf.org. Reporters Without Borders. 2017-01-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20170104165310/https://12mars.rsf.org/2016-en/collateral-freedom-how-we-are-doing-it/. 2017-01-04. dead.
- Web site: Reporters Without Borders unblocks access to censored websites. 2015-03-12. BetaNews. 2017-01-04.
- News: Internet activists are finding ways around China's Great Firewall. Washington Post. 2017-01-04.
