Censorship is alive and well at SecureComputing

and BoingBoing has ways of evading their censorship:

http://www.boingboing.net/censorroute.html
Some information, such as child porn or how to build a nuke, should be restricted or blocked. Sites like BoingBoing have neither so should not be censored. I discovered these links from http://www.ioerror.us/2006/03/01/this-is-secure-computing/ or http://www.ioerror.us/ .

I will post more as I find them. I grew up reading anything I wanted. I had my first library card when I was eight years old in the little town of Tennant, California! My Mother was the Librarian and she did not believe in censorship. She permitted meto read anything I wanted. Later librarians were just as open as she was. I cut my eye teeth on robert [Anson] Heinlein. I remember his middle name very well because librarians have a habit of adding his middle name in pencil to the title page. I have never understood why they did that. In my opinion his masterpieces include "Time Enough For Love" and "
Stranger In A Strange Land." The latter gave us the term 'grok'. I recommend these to everyone although many religions would find fault with them.

The following is from BoingBoing's web site listed above:

• A group called Peacefire created proxy software called Circumventor to bypass censorware. Install this software on your home computer and allow others to use your proxy to access the web, or use your proxy from work or school to access any web site. (Thanks, Sean!)

• Bennett Haselton of Peacefire, who developed Circumventor, says:

  "For 90% of users in the USA affected by SmartFilter, there is no reason to use anything but Circumventor. The reasons are:

  1) It's simple to set up. Just run three simple point-and-click installers. We even have a wizard that comes up automatically to help you set up port forwarding on your router if you've never done it before.
  2) You are not required to install anything on the "censored" computer, you just bring a URL in with you to work.
  3) It works even if the censored network blocks direct connections to IP addresses outside the network (which would break some of the other solutions recommended in this guide).

  "If you're in Iran, Saudi Arabia, or some other country censored by SmartFilter, then your best choices are (a) TOR, or (b) use a Circumventor if you can get someone in a "free country" to set one up for you. (The reason Circumventor works for 90% of workplace-filtered users in the U.S. is that they can almost always set it up on their home computer and take the URL in with them. But not everybody in a censored *country* has someone outside who can help them.)

  "Circumventor is the *only* method (as far as I know) that will work reliably on computers where people are blocked from installing their own software (or even changing proxy settings) -- because after you install it on your home computer, all it gives you is a URL, and you can take that URL in with you to work and use it whenever you want. Many people in workplaces and libraries are blocked from installing software on their computers. Or even if they could, it would be a definite 'smoking gun' if anyone noticed that the software had been installed; whereas our software leaves fewer traces. (There is a 'smoking gun' in the form of a URL in the URL history, but that's much less likely to be noticed than a TOR icon on your desktop!)"

• Rich says, "This cgi-bin script is the guts inside Peacefire's Circumventor - a Perl CGI script that proxys for you. While Circumventor is a full script to get it working under Win2k/XP, the cgiproxy script alone lets you get it going on Linux and (presumeably) Mac OSX. And the best part - the setup is dirt simple - if you're already running a web server, pretty much just drop it in your cgi-bin directory.