websense http://www.webupon.com/tags/websense New posts about websense Bypassing Internet Censorship http://www.webupon.com/Services/Bypassing-Internet-Censorship.60136 So, you were at a public place, or at work, or maybe even at a library. And you are browsing the Internet and you find this wonderful site that you must go to. But when you click on that link, instead of that glamorous website appearing you get an ugly error message stating that the page is blocked. You are aghast, because you must use this webpage. So you start looking for a way around these blocks, and you discover proxies!

Now, before I begin a little about proxies. What your computer does to retrieve information (in layman's terms) is get the information and pull it back to your computer. But when blocking software is installed (ex. WebSense) your computer has to get the information censored,and if it doesn't pass screening you get a block message instead of the webpage you want to do. So what a proxy does is basically this: You send request to proxy, proxy gets webpage, proxy brings webpage to you. They are sort of slow, but that is a small price to pay for getting access to that exquisite webpage that you must have access to.

Now, you could just go use any old proxy out there, and you'll find (not surprisingly) that proxies are blocked! This is where you can say "Oh, dear me." or you can use proxies that are providing by a non-profit organization called Peacefire. What Peacefire is is a group of people that will every few days buy a new domain name and host a new proxy on them. So, even after Proxy Apple gets blocked Proxy Tomato is still unblocked for you to use.

So, now your wondering what some of those proxies are. Well there are about 100 of them, but to increase the proxies life span Peacefire doesn't post the proxy's URL anywhere So you have 2 options to get the URL's, the first is to keep reading this article (highly recommended =D) or you could subscribe to Peacefire.org's mailing list. I recommend that you do both since this article won't be constantly updated with new information.

Some of the proxies that I am presently aware of are:

Welcome to the fight against Internet censorship.

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