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Psiphon Project to Fight Net Censorship

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Ryan Naraine
Ryan Naraine
Nov 29, 2006
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UPDATED: Researchers at the University of Toronto are working on a free tool to allow Web surfers to bypass government censorship of the Web. The tool, called psiphon, is part of a human rights software project developed by the Citizen Lab at the Munk Centre for International Studies and funded by the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation).

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