The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders has released an 87-page "Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents," which provides advice on how to circumvent internet censors in various countries, reports the AP. The effort is partly financed by the French Foreign Ministry and includes technical advice on how to remain anonymous online. It is available in Chinese, Arabic, Persian, English and French.
The handbook ends with a "championship" of top internet censors, starting with China and its "clever mix of investment, technology and diplomacy." Julien Pain, head of the watchdog's Internet Freedom desk, says of censorship in China: "A call for free elections…has a maximum online life of about half an hour."
The San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation has also published an online guide on how to keep blogs anonymous.
