New tool helps Internet users bypass censors
Responding to the growing trend of government-sponsored Internet censorship in many countries, researchers at the University of Toronto have created a new tool to help citizens in restrictive countries circumvent censors. Psiphon is a program to help people living in censorship regimes access Western news sites, blogs, religious sites, health information and other forbidden content on the Web.
Ronald Deibert, who directs the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, which monitors global Internet censorship, says the Lab created Psiphon to help fulfill the early promise of the Internet to advance human rights.
