Activists Foil Chinese Firewall to Unblock Reuters

All firewalls have some holes in them, even the Great Firewall of China, the online censorship system that the Chinese government uses to block sites it deems inappropriate for its citizens

A group of Internet activists has apparently found a way to circumvent the Great Firewall to unblock Reuters' Chinese-language website, which was censored on Friday. The site is now accessible in China through mirror sites, launched on Sunday by a group of activists called GreatFire.

Reuters is now hosted on two mirrors; sites that have the same content as the original, but have a different domain addressOne is hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS), the other on Google's Cloud Storage Read more...