Circumventing censorship

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This page was created about the blog ban in India, but the circumvention methods will work with other forms of censorship too.

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The Net treats censorship as damage and routes around it.

—John Gilmore

[edit] For Blogspot

[edit] Firefox Extension

httProxy:
A firefox extension for proxyfing the sites. Also included pkblogs.com along with other options.
Dilettante via pkblogs or Dilettante:
A Greasemonkey script to use Coral Cache to rewrite Blogspot URLs. It's at the bottom of the post.
Blogspot2Inblogs:
A Greasmonkey script to use the service at InBlogs to rewrite Blogsport URLs.
browseatwork.com FireFox extensions A couple of FireFox extensions that can be used to bypass the ban.

[edit] Proxy server list

One way to visit a blocked site is through another site, generally called a proxy site or proxy server. Some proxies are listed below.

http://www.SkunkRox.com
http://www.proxy.org
http://www.proxy.biz
A wml proxy site from Google. This proxy can access all pages no matter where you are. Its very useful on WAP enabled mobile handsets. All contents from web are available without any ads. Courtesy Harshad Joshi.
www.boreproxy.com ((below the link for favourites you will find an edit box; enter URI there)
Shadow Surf
Proxy Unlimited
Shy Surfer
Dave Proxy - UK Based
Access Blocked Sites
Ninja Proxy
SFAP Proxy
Anonymouse Proxy (cookies are not stored, so you cannot submit comment with saved Username & Password.)
Unipeak
Cheetah Rox
Cybersyndrome
Search in google for nph proxy.cgi, you'll get lots of free proxies.
Information on JAP proxy which has a huge list of proxy servers and one could easily setup a PEERING point within India too if one wishes to.

[edit] Using TOR to bypass the block

[edit] By Using Google Web Accelerator

Downloadand install Google Web accelreator and bypass the BAN. When using GWA, you actually access the blogspot pages from the Google Proxy server, where they are cached and not directly from the blogspot server.

[edit] Via RSS Readers

Search and find a RSS reader that you like. You can get applications as well as online readers.
You will need to know the RSS feed URI for the blog that you are trying to reach. Some RSS readers uto-search for feeds if you enter the blog's URI. You can use a search engine again.
Any decent RSS reader will come with instructions and Help files.
Some RSS readers:
- Google Reader in https.
- The Opera browser has an in-built RSS reader
- Bloglines
- Feedburner