New Book on Circumventionism and Why We Will Win

It has been approximately fifteen years that I have been getting first-hand experience with the many shades of internet and freedoms of expression in the world. Previously, anonymity and privacy tools were mostly things to play around with to see what mathematics could do. It all got real in a hurry when I was out on trips to the Middle East, South Asia, and the Far East in search of work. There were places where the newspapers and television were so full of bunk that I cut them out of daily life. On top of that, the good stuff on shortwave radio was either buried in noise or jammed by regional dictatorships. WTF was I going to do to find some decent punk and reggae music? WTF was I going to do for believable news?

Learn to use the internet. Internet choked half to death by the censors? Learn to circumvent. Looking back over recent years, I see two trends:

1.. Computing power and network bandwidth is cheap and strong. So strong that the holes in national censorship barriers are more and more easy to exploit. Global connectivity can be had by anyone willing to take action with circumvention tools like Tor, I2P, or WireGuard.
2.. There is so much information war being waged by autocracies that jumping your local censorship wall may simply open the door to another country's variant of propaganda and disinformation. Be meticulous about where you go for your unblocked media.

If the subject interests you, consider reading my latest book which argues that autocracies are losing the ability to censor. Conversely, the free countries' media are becoming polluted information environments due to information warfare.

The GFW is not dead and Russia is close to severing its data cables to the outside. If there is connectivity at all, it can be made to be free connectivity. That is why the autocracies want to throttle cross-border connections so severely.