Censorship is so passe

Government censorship is abhorrent to say the least because, as the late great I.F. Stone said:, "Governments lie.", a notion most intelligent people accept without question. Enter Telex, software able to keep the net open and accessible to all without the specter of government censorship.

This is how Telex works:

• Telex operates in the network infrastructure — at any ISP between the censor's network and non-blocked portions of the Internet — rather than at network end points. This approach, which we call “end-to-middle” proxying, can make the system robust against countermeasures (such as blocking) by the censor.
• Telex focuses on avoiding detection by the censor. That is, it allows a user to circumvent a censor without alerting the censor to the act of circumvention. It complements services like Tor (which focus on hiding with whom the user is attempting to communicate instead of that that the user is attempting to have an anonymous conversation) rather than replacing them.
• Telex employs a form of deep-packet inspection — a technology sometimes used to censor communication — and repurposes it to circumvent censorship.
• Other systems require distributing secrets, such as encryption keys or IP addresses, to individual users. If the censor discovers these secrets, it can block the system. With Telex, there are no secrets that need to be communicated to users in advance, only the publicly available client software.
• Telex can provide a state-level response to state-level censorship. We envision that friendly countries would create incentives for ISPs to deploy Telex.

Seen below is a picture of the irreverent Izzy, a reporter who's I.F. Stone's Weekly monitored US government affairs at a level beyond anything we see today.

This statement shown below says it all about a guy who believed in openness and freedom above all else, in hopes of educating people about the vagaries of government and what must be done to hold the government accountable for misdeeds it perpetrates in order to remain in power.

"I am, I suppose, an anachronism. In this age of corporation men, I am an independent capitalist, the owner of my own enterprise, subject to neither mortgager or broker, factor or patron. In an age when young men, setting out on a career of journalism, must find their niche in some huge newspaper or magazine combine, I am a wholly independent newspaperman, standing alone, without organizational or party backing, beholden to no one but my good readers. I am even one up on Benjamin Franklin—I do not accept advertising."