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This plugin allows you to circumvent internet censorship by proxying traffic to websites that have been blocked by repressive regimes. Alpha software:

Author: (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:3.0
WordPress version tested:3.3.2
Plugin version:0.1alpha16
Added to WordPress repository:23-01-2012
Last updated:11-06-2012
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
Rating, %:100
Rated by:2
Plugin URI:https://all4xs.net
Total downloads:18 536
Active installs:200+
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WARNING

This plugin is still an Alpha release. By their nature these releases are unstable and should not be used on places where your data is important. Please backup your data(base) before using this plugin. Please do not install this plugin on servers where you have different software than WordPress installed. This plugin provides only minimal protection against Cross-Site Scripting attacks aan Cookie hijacking. Use at your own risk and proxy only sites you trust.

ABOUT

This plug-in enables you to magically uncensor any website on the internet from your own WordPress installation.

More and more governments from east and west are trying to censor the Internet. For different reasons the governments of countries like Iran, the USA, Syria, The Netherlands and China seek ways to block websites of the web and limit free speech. This plug-in will enable you to get those websites online again for you, your friends and the rest of the world without any hassle. Your website will become a proxy for the blocked website, rerouting any traffic from a user, through your website to the blocked site.

We believe in an Open Web and gladly make it possible for everyone to defend their human right to the free flow of information. By installing this plug-in you are doing your part to keep the Web Open.

Why? This plugin was made in response to the ongoing limitation of the Open Web. In the dawn of 2012 we found ourselves confronted with a court-ruling blocking the Piratebay.org in the Netherlands. On the other side of the ocean new laws are being discussed to curtail web-freedom even further. SOPA and PIPA are set to defend the interests of the Entertainment industry, but will mainly cause grave and undeniable damage to the Open and Free web and all of it’s users: from the end-consumer to the cutting edge developers and inventors. In the same time countries like Iran, Syria, North-Korea and so on are using the same techniques to censor free speech to maintain their iron grip on power. Our aim is to make all of this impossible.

The web knows many ways to circumvent blockades and censorship. Some argue that these court-rulings and new laws will never have any effect because of all these tricks to by-pass them. This might be true, but in general only holds for the more tech-savvy among us. And in either case it doesn’t make these rulings and laws less bad.

Our plugin still requires some technical skills to employ, but next to none to use. Any WordPress powered website with this plug-in will immediately start functioning as a proxy for the censored websites. Thus opening them again for the big audience.