How to Bypass Internet Censorship and Filters: A Guide to Circumvention Technologies and Anonymous Browsing

by Ronald J. Deibert (Editor), Ethan Zuckerman (Contributor), Roger Dingledine (Contributor)

Because we believe that Internet censorship is not only against the basic purpose of the Internet, which is to let people communicate what they want to with the people they want to communicate with, but also fundamentally against the universal right to freedom of opinion and expression [which] includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers (UDHR, Article 19), we offer you here "How to bypass Internet Censorship".

This book will not only help you find your way in the diversity of tools and techniques that allow you to defeat Internet censorship, but will also tell you more about how censorship works behind the curtains. You will also learn about the risks that may be linked to the use of such tools, and help you evaluate and mitigate them thanks to encryption or anonymization techniques.

240 pages, ebook

First published June 20, 2011

About the author

Ronald J. Deibert is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Citizen Lab and Canada Centre for Global Security Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto.