Excellent study! This reminds me a recent libtech thread about GoAgent ( https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/2013-April/008175.html ).
2013/5/2 Harlan Yu <harla...@cs.princeton.edu> > Hi LibTech, > > OpenITP has just released a new report—Collateral Freedom—that studies the > state of circumvention tool usage in China today. From the report’s > overview: > > This report documents the experiences of 1,175 Chinese Internet users who > are circumventing their country’s Internet censorship—and it carries a > powerful message for developers and funders of censorship circumvention > tools. We believe these results show an opportunity for the circumvention > tech community to build stable, long term improvements in Internet freedom > in China. > > The circumvention tools that work best for these users are technologically > diverse, but they are united by a shared political feature: the collateral > cost of choosing to block them is prohibitive for China’s censors. Our > survey respondents are relying not on tools that the Great Firewall can’t > block, but rather on tools that the Chinese government does not want the > Firewall to block. Internet freedom for these users is collateral freedom, > built on technologies and platforms that the regime finds economically or > politically indispensable. > > > Download the full report here: http://openitp.org/?q=node/44 > > The study was conducted by David Robinson, Harlan Yu and Anne An. It was > managed by OpenITP, and supported by Radio Free Asia’s Open Technology > Fund. We wrote it primarily for developers and funders of censorship > circumvention technology projects, but is also designed to be accessible > for non-technical policymakers who are interested in Internet freedom, and > for China specialists without technology background. > > We’d be glad to hear any feedback you all have! > > best, > Harlan. > > --- > Harlan Yu > Robinson + Yu > http://www.robinsonyu.com > > > -- > Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by > emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech >
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