Excerpted from USA Today:
In 2002, [Bill] Xia formed a company — Dynamic Internet Technology — to wage cyberwar on the Chinese regime. He created Freegate, a software program that finds holes in the firewall and takes Chinese Internet users to banned websites, undetected. Xia also sends millions of e-mail messages into China for customers such as Voice of America and the activist group Human Rights in China. The e-mails contain links to forbidden sites at an ever-changing list of temporary Internet addresses, part of an effort to stay a step ahead of Chinese censors.
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For more information on this issue:
- HRIC Campaign:
Incorporating Responsibility 2008 Take Action Campaign - China Rights Forum No. 4, 2007:
The Real Situation in Pre-Olympics China - Teng Biao and Hu Jia give their views about the situation on the ground in the countdown to the Olympics. - China Rights Forum No. 2, 2006:
A Conversation with Citizen Lab - Sharon Hom interviews Ron Deibert and Nart Villeneuve on their work battling Internet censorship. - China Rights Forum No. 2, 2006:
The Hijacked Potential of China’s Internet - He Qinglian details the ways in which government controls have forced China to miss out on the full benefits of the Internet revolution. - CDT/BSR Press Release:
HRIC joins Companies, Human Rights Groups, Investors, Academics and Technology Leaders to Address International Free Expression and Privacy Challenges - Written testimony submitted to U.S. Congressional Hearing:
"The Internet in China: A Tool for Freedom or Suppression?" - China Rights Forum, No.3, 2005:
"Logging on in China's Internet Cafes: An HRIC Field Survey" - China Rights Forum, No.4, 2004:
"Media Control in China" - HRIC Case Study:
"Human Rights and Spam: A China Case Study"