Google has announced it’s working on technology that will allow users to bypass internet censorship in countries like China and Iran. The tool, known as uProxy, works by allowing people to surf the internet via a friend’s web browser in another country that doesn’t have internet restrictions. Although not new, technology commentators say they’re encouraged. VoR's Vivienne Nunis reports.
Google has launched its latest attempt to change the world through the internet.
This time the technology giant has its sights set on facilitating internet freedom for people in countries where the web is restricted.
Under software it’s still developing with the University of Washington, Google plans to help users avoid censorship by accessing the internet through a friend’s web browser… thousands of miles away.
In fact, the plan is to give restricted users access to an internet browser that’s so far away, it’s in another country – another country that enjoys comparative internet freedom. Read More!
Out in the Open: Hackers Bring Lawmaking Into the 21st Century
The first bill created with Madison was the Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade Act (the OPEN Act) in 2011, a response to a Senate bill called the Protect IP Act (PIPA) and a House bill called Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
SOPA and PIPA proposed measures such as forcing ISPs to blacklist certain website — measures critics like Issa argued were not only draconian but futile. Kraft says Issa, a veteran of the electronics industry, believed the many of the problems with the bills stemmed from the fact they were written with help from the recording and film industries and without input from the technology industry or users. Issa and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) wanted to propose an alternative bill that drew on feedback from the public.
“We needed a way to hack open the legislative process to bring in all the expertise that was shut out,” says Kraft. “We looked at the open market for things that would satisfy the production process of congress, and didn’t find anything that met our needs.” So the team built Madison, and then set to work on drafting the OPEN Act. Read More!
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