{"id":166285,"date":"2013-12-05T17:16:39","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T01:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=166285"},"modified":"2021-09-14T21:47:21","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T04:47:21","slug":"lantern-program-allows-chinese-dodge-firewall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/12\/lantern-program-allows-chinese-dodge-firewall\/","title":{"rendered":"Lantern Program Allows Chinese to Dodge Firewall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An increasing number of Internet users in China are turning to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china-insider\/article\/1372661\/use-lantern-software-means-view-banned-websites-grows-china\"><strong>Lantern, a US-sponsored computer software program, to bypass the Chinese state&#8217;s censorship apparatus or the Great Firewall<\/strong><\/a>. South China Morning Post&#8217;s\u00a0Patrick Boehler reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cChina just cleared 10,000 users,\u201d Chris Holmes, a product manager behind the computer application, told the\u00a0<em>South China Morning Post<\/em>\u00a0in an email. \u201cTwo weeks ago, it was probably 200.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]\u00a0The software allows users in countries with free internet access to donate a share of their internet bandwidth to users in countries where some websites are blocked, such as China or Iran. Once they log in, a share of their traffic is channeled through the network.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]\u00a0As of Wednesday, 77.9 per cent of the software\u2019s 13,000 users are in China. They have transferred some 3.9 terabytes of data across the firewall, or 92.9 per cent of Lantern\u2019s global traffic.<\/p>\n<p>The software is financed by US$2.2 million (HK$17.1 million) seed funding by the US State Department, said Holmes. This year, the State Department and the US Agency for International Development have awarded US$25 million to groups working to advance internet freedom, according to the State Department\u2019s Office of International Communications and Information Policy. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china-insider\/article\/1372661\/use-lantern-software-means-view-banned-websites-grows-china\"><strong>Source<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An increasing number of Internet users in China are turning to Lantern, a US-sponsored computer software program, to bypass the Chinese state&#8217;s censorship apparatus or the Great Firewall. South China Morning Post&#8217;s\u00a0Patrick Boehler reports: \u201cChina just cleared 10,000 users,\u201d Chris Holmes, a product manager behind the computer application, told the\u00a0South China Morning Post\u00a0in an email. 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