Comments on: FreeAccess Plus!: Web 2.0 Censorship workaround

By: New Media and The Middle East – Challenging Authority in Iran « Adventures in Media Development

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:06:58 +0000

[...] Friendster.com, livejournal.com, MySpace, Hi5 and others, many of which are barred in Iran (Sami Ben Charbia, Global Voices). Moreover, as long as it is relatively easy to create a website, and as long as people in Iran, [...]

By: Hamed Saber

Hamed Saber — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:39:02 +0000

Not yet Sami,
But all important webloges that introduced this extension is blocked now. Some bloggers removed their post introducing the FreeAccess+ to avoid being filtered, but some of these are filtered too.

By: Sami Ben GHarbia

Sami Ben GHarbia — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:52:48 +0000

many thank Hamed for your feedback, is AccessFlickr has been banned in Iran?

By: Le blogueur citoyen » Un outil pour contourner la censure en Iran : FreeAccess Plus

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:30:45 +0000

[...] FreeAccess Plus!: Web 2.0 Censorship workaround [...]

By: Bethany

Bethany — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:51:30 +0000

Thanks for this piece. I was very interested to learn about internet censorship around the world. I wish your map link worked.

By: Jacob Zhu

Jacob Zhu — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:08:36 +0000

I would like to know whether the FreeAccess Plus! Firefox extension is needed by web surfers in China – I mean are the websites mentioned blocked there? – and whether the extension is applicable to Chinese versions of Firefox.

By: Hamed Saber

Hamed Saber — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:42:43 +0000

Dear Sami,
As I contacted the author of FreeAccessPlus via email, and wrote him this, i think it would be helpful for future programmers to know this issue, so I rewrite my idea here:
The FreeAccessPlus is using exactly the same idea as AccessFlickr uses.
Let’s talk about policy of government for filtering anti-filters: There are two different ways for finding anti-filters: 1. Subscribing in proxy provider mailing-lists, 2. Doing some content searches in frequently requested web pages to find anti-filtering ways, specially web-proxies, and then ban them too.
In my opinion, FreeAccessPlus will be banned soon, I wish this censor won’t include the sites it is re-opening, specially the way it bypasses the filter, if so, the AccessFlickr which has a very smaller users won’t work anymore too, just because of lack of politics!

By: Civiblog Central

Civiblog Central — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 02:00:08 +0000

FreeAccess Plus!: Web 2.0 Censorship Workaround…

MohammadR, has released “FreeAccess Plus!“, a nifty extension that turns Firefox into a proxy that bypasses censorship on popular Web 2.0 websites, many of those web sites are barred in Iran….

By: Juliana Rincón Parra

Juliana Rincón Parra — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:09:18 +0000

This is amazing stuff. Not only for countries with nationwide blocked websites, but also for those of us in countries that don´t understand web 2.0 and block social websites just because people “waste time” on them. Sometimes even in public libraries.