Humanity+ Website Banned in China
It has come to our attention that the censors running the “Great Firewall” on China’s access to the internet have blocked access to transhumanism.org and humanityplus.org.
While this puts us in excellent company, we are concerned that it limits our ability to share transhumanism with a quarter of the world’s population. If you are in contact with Chinese transhumanists who are not already on the wta-china mailing list please put the Humanity+ Secretary, Dr. Hughes, in touch with them so they can be added to the list, the email from which does not appear to be blocked yet.
If you have any ideas about how to get the block lifted please note them in comments.
I wonder if there are anonymizer or proxy websites that the Chinese could use to bypass their National firewall. A non-filtered website they could surf to which would then bring up the desired website in a frame. Normally, IP traffic flows from the website to the user through the firewall, and the firewall simply filters anything coming from unapproved sources. A proxy website would send the IP data from the desired website through itself, so that traffic from the banned website appears to be coming from the (not-yet-banned) proxy site.
Any idea why exactly the H+ sites were banned?
What’s the best guess as to why you were blocked?
Well, if you haven’t watched the news lately, China has been having some issues with freedom.
You know, China’s 60th National Day is coming. The Chinese Overlords are planning to put on a big show at Tiananmen Square, and they get really offended by any websites with words like “humanity” and “humanism” in the names. So next time, try Vogonity+!
If you are able to contact the chinese transhumanists, you might recommend they use this:
https://www.torproject.org/
“Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis.”
I think China blocks the Tor website so you might send the browser bundle directly or refer them to one of the site mirrors:
https://www.torproject.org/mirrors.html.en
There are plenty of proxy sites out there and new ones get born quite often. There’s always bound to be a bunch which are not blocked. Here’s a list of unblocked proxies: http://www.tech-faq.com/proxy.shtml
Tor is also a good suggestion.
Regards.
Tor works, but the website is blocked in china. Need to use a proxy to download it. Then it works perfectly.
If the site was blocked in the past it is not blocked now. I live in Shanghai and am accessing this now w/o the use of any proxy software or vpn.
That’s great to hear! Thanks for the update…