[liberationtech] WSJ Op-Ed: No Quick Fixes for Internet Freedom

Walid Al-Saqaf admin at alkasir.com
Mon Nov 22 07:20:32 PST 2010


I totally agree with Jilian on this point. I also find that research done on
Internet censorship outside China is very limited.

Sincerely,

Walid

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Walid Al-Saqaf
Founder & Administrator
alkasir for mapping and circumventing cyber censorship
https://alkasir.com <walid.al-saqaf at oru.se>


On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Jillian York
<jyork at cyber.law.harvard.edu>wrote:

> "I am not in favor of bringing such political considerations into the
> funding process for two reasons"
>
> If political considerations weren't a part of the funding process, then
> we'd see more funding targeting the other countries with pervasive filtering
> regimes (Syria, Tunisia, etc) and not just to China/Iran.  And yet, the
> entire discourse remains primarily about China and Iran, even--to a
> degree--on this list.
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Hal Roberts <
> hroberts at cyber.law.harvard.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Mehdi,
>>
>>
>> On 11/22/10 8:43 AM, Mehdi Yahyanejad wrote:
>>
>>>      China at least seems to block each tool in proportion to the
>>>    degree to which the tool embarrasses the regime (*not* in proportion
>>>    to the technical efficiency of the tool).  The gifc tools hugely
>>>    embarrass the Chinese government because they are both falun gong
>>>    run and explicitly political.
>>>
>>>
>>> This is not a proven fact. More likely, Chinese government will put
>>> resources in blocking any successful tool regardless of the
>>> embarrassment factor. Also so far, GIFC has been successful in defeating
>>> the Chinese government's censorship and there is no reason to believe
>>> that they won't be able to do so in future.
>>>
>>
>> It is not proven (and can't be without access to the inner rooms of the
>> Chinese government where these decision are made).  But the evidence I see
>> strongly suggests that this is the case.  Last time I checked, the Chinese
>> government blocks tor nodes every few months (and not at all until about a
>> year ago).  They block every gifc front end proxy within seconds (and have
>> blocked them aggressively for years).  I know of at least two other China
>> focused tools that I won't disclose for obvious reasons that have similar or
>> greater usage as the gifc tools that have been completely unblocked for at
>> least the past couple of years.
>>
>> These differences have been one of the great mysteries of the GFW: Why is
>> it that with all of the technical resources China has poured into the gfw,
>> any of a half dozen people on this list could greatly improve the proxy
>> blocking of the gfw with a couple days of writing perl scripts? The best
>> possible answers are either that the folks running the filter are
>> incompetent or that the proxy blocking decisions are made by political
>> rather than technical folks.  I think the latter is much, much more likely.
>>
>> The gifc tools, as a testament to the incredible smarts and dedication of
>> their volunteers, have remained mostly functional in the face of very
>> agressive blocking.  But they have reported to me that their usage has
>> dropped dramatically at times as they respond to the blocking attempts.
>>  Just this week I was told by someone in China that everyone he knows has
>> stopped using the gifc tools altogether because they are useless now (I
>> don't think that this is the case generally -- it's common to hear
>> conflicting reports of this sort because usage of the tools tends to be very
>> clumpy within local communities -- but it's evidence that the gifc tools are
>> not immune to the effects of blocking as your portray them).
>>
>> Of course, a tool with sufficient usage will eventually embarrass the
>> government, but current evidence suggests that the level of usage necessary
>> to encourage blocking by itself is higher than the usage of any of the
>> current tools.
>>
>>
>>
>>> I am not in favor of bringing such political considerations into the
>>> funding process for two reasons:
>>>
>>> 1) It is hard to agree on political considerations. For example, some
>>> people see the political background of GIFC as a negative factor, I
>>> don't. The success of GIFC's products is partly due to their
>>> understanding of the context which must have come from their political
>>> background. Considering that they have created the tools for a political
>>> goal, they are not getting distracted by having a design which would be
>>> admired in academic circles/. /They know that their primary job is
>>> getting as many people as possible to the blocked content.
>>>
>>
>> Well, insofar as you are talking about funding by the USG, it is
>> non-sensical to say that funding should not be guided by political
>> considerations.  Politics is the whole point.
>>
>> I'll point out, though, that I have stayed entirely away from the
>> diplomatic or cultural politics involved with falun gong (which is to say
>> that some folks at state don't want to fund gifc because the funding will
>> upset diplomatic relations and other folks disagree with funding gifc
>> because they disagree with the culture of falun gong general).  The only
>> point I'm making is that the evidence I see says that the gifc tools are and
>> will continue to be much more aggressively blocked in China than any other
>> tool and that bigger, more public chunks of USG money seems likely to
>> increase the aggression of that blocking.
>>
>>
>>
>>> 2) Such political considerations brings in lobbyists to the funding
>>> process. Groups that have not received funding due to such political
>>> considerations will use outside pressure to defeat the political
>>> considerations used against them. If it is true that gifc has used
>>> lobbyists, it is the direct result of such political considerations that
>>> prevented them from getting funding before.
>>>
>>
>> The answer then is that the USG should not be the major funder of these
>> tools.  If the USG is funding these highly political tools, lobbying will be
>> involved.  Even moreso at the higher levels of funding that the GIFC's
>> lobbyists are pushing.
>>
>> -hal
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -mehdi
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Hal Roberts
>>> <hroberts at cyber.law.harvard.edu <mailto:hroberts at cyber.law.harvard.edu>>
>>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>    I wrote a similar (though vastly less well written!) oped to
>>>    Rebecca's this week for Radio Free Europe:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.rferl.org/content/Breaking_Internet_Censorship_Will_Take_More_Than_Circumvention_Tools/2222401.html
>>>
>>>    The careful argument I've been trying to make about circumvention
>>>    funding is that there's plenty of reason to fund these tools for the
>>>    absolute amount of good they do -- allowing hundreds of thousands or
>>>    millions more people more freedom of expression on the Internet.
>>>    There's real good in giving ultrasurf / tor / ultrasurf / psiphon /
>>>    hotspotshield enough money to be able to provide more freedom of
>>>    expression to a million more people.
>>>
>>>    But the gifc tools at least are not being sold that way -- they are
>>>    being sold as the way to make the internet (and even authoritarian
>>>    societies!) free, which they clearly will not do by themselves.
>>>      It's fine to spend money battling the low hanging fruit of network
>>>    filtering simply because that's where the easy (if slight) leverage
>>>    is, but we need to be clear that that's what we're doing.
>>>
>>>    The other issue that I don't discuss in my oped (for space reasons)
>>>    is that the gifc tools are easily the best in the world at evading
>>>    blocking because they are easily the most aggressively blocked tool
>>>    in the world.  China at least seems to block each tool in proportion
>>>    to the degree to which the tool embarrasses the regime (*not* in
>>>    proportion to the technical efficiency of the tool).  The gifc tools
>>>    hugely embarrass the Chinese government because they are both falun
>>>    gong run and explicitly political.  One likely effect of the USG
>>>    publicly granting a much bigger chunk of money to gifc will be to
>>>    embarrass the Chinese government even more and encourage them to
>>>    ramp up their blocking efforts.  Again, this is not sufficient
>>>    reason to not to fund these tools, but it is reason to carefully
>>>    consider whether it's the best idea to publicly give them a much
>>>    bigger chunk of money.
>>>
>>>    -hal
>>>
>>>
>>>    On 11/19/10 6:44 PM, Mehdi Yahyanejad wrote:
>>>
>>>        Most of the public justification for the Internet Freedom
>>>        funding has
>>>        been the specific cases of Iran and China (read congressional
>>>        hearings
>>>        on these issues). It makes sense to ask about the effectiveness
>>>        of the
>>>        funding in Iran and China. GIFC tools have been pretty successful
>>> in
>>>        Iran so far. Since they were made for China, they must be doing
>>>        better
>>>        there. There has been much more funding for other projects with
>>> less
>>>        impressive result. Why don't we hear about the funding spent on
>>>        other
>>>        projects? Criticizing the funding for one of the most successful
>>>        circumvention tools to make an argument on why there should be
>>>        different
>>>        priorities for Internet Freedom is not helping the argument.
>>>
>>>        Having a broader strategy for "Internet freedom" and listing
>>>        priorities
>>>        is needed but those other priorities are not as well-defined as
>>> the
>>>        technical problems. A good thing about technical problems is
>>>        that with a
>>>        good mix of money and engineers, you can generate some results.
>>>        That is
>>>        not the case with the legal and regulatory issues. Until we do
>>>        have that
>>>        list of priorities, we better keep our eyes on the technical
>>>        challenges
>>>        and not get distracted.
>>>
>>>        -mehdi
>>>
>>>        On Nov 19, 2010, at 7:57 AM, Evgeny Morozov wrote:
>>>
>>>            I'd like to chime in here and defend Rebecca's conclusions,
>>>            which are
>>>            very similar to my own. My impression is that none of this
>>>            money is
>>>            meant specifically for either a) circumvention or b) Iran.
>>>            As such, I
>>>            don't see how the facts that Mehdi cites - i.e. that GIFC
>>>            tools are
>>>            actively used in Iran or that other projects got more money -
>>> is
>>>            relevant for our discussion here. That the US government may
>>>            have
>>>            overspent on other tools is no good reason to continue doing
>>>            so in the
>>>            future, even if the portfolio is diversified with GIFC.
>>>
>>>            The government may not have a real strategy on how to
>>>            address some of
>>>            the other challenges/threats to "Internet freedom"
>>>            highlighted in
>>>            Rebecca's piece (and for the record, I don't think that
>>>            "Internet
>>>            freedom" is a useful way to describe the problems facing
>>>            them), but
>>>            this is certainly NOT a good excuse to continue funding
>>> projects
>>>            without drawing up a list of both regional and topical
>>>            priorities
>>>            first. As I once already said on this list, while I
>>>            appreciate Mehdi's
>>>            concern about the accessibility of his web-site to users in
>>>            Iran, this
>>>            surely can't be the guiding principle of US foreign policy on
>>>            "Internet freedom".
>>>
>>>            Evgeny
>>>
>>>            On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 3:50 AM, Mehdi Yahyanejad
>>>            <yahyanejad at gmail.com <mailto:yahyanejad at gmail.com>
>>>            <mailto:yahyanejad at gmail.com <mailto:yahyanejad at gmail.com>>>
>>>
>>>            wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>                    Since 2007, Congress has inserted a total of $50
>>>                million of
>>>                    earmarks into the State Department's budget to fund
>>>                organizations
>>>                    dedicated to fighting Internet censorship. One group
>>>                that has
>>>                    been lobbying hard for the money is the Global
>>>                Internet Freedom
>>>                    Consortium, run mainly by practitioners of the Falun
>>>                Gong, a
>>>                    religious sect banned in China. The GIFC has
>>>                produced a suite of
>>>                    circumvention tools that work well, as long as the
>>>                user doesn't
>>>                    mind that GIFC engineers can see their unencrypted
>>>                    communications, or that the security of the tool has
>>>                not been
>>>                    vetted by independent experts.
>>>
>>>                    The GIFC has found powerful allies in Mark Palmer,
>>>                who was U.S.
>>>                    ambassador to Hungary when the Iron Curtain fell,
>>>                and Michael
>>>                    Horowitz, a former Reagan administration official
>>>                and longtime
>>>                    advocate for human rights and religious freedom.
>>>                They argue that
>>>                    if the GIFC can get sufficient funding to scale up
>>>                their tools,
>>>                    authoritarian regimes will be brought to their knees.
>>>
>>>                    The State Department has come under fire in the
>>>                Journal, the
>>>                    Washington Post and the New York Times for failing
>>>                to support
>>>                    GIFC. And it's true that of the $20 million already
>>>                allocated,
>>>                    most went to other groups that are less radioactive
>>>                as far as
>>>                    U.S.-China relations are concerned. Some of these
>>>                groups work to
>>>                    help activists with training and security against
>>>                surveillance,
>>>                    cyber-attacks and other threats, in addition to
>>>                circumventing
>>>                    censorship.
>>>
>>>                    In August, $1.5 million out of $5 million available
>>>                for 2009 was
>>>                    finally awarded by the State Department to the GIFC
>>>                via the
>>>                    Broadcasting Board of Governors. The bidding process
>>>                for a
>>>                    remaining $30 million is expected to start soon.
>>>                With the
>>>                    mid-term elections now finished, we can look forward
>>>                to a new
>>>                    surge in the war over who gets to be hero of the
>>>                fairy tale
>>>                "Toppling the Iron Curtain 2.0"
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>                The GIFC tools are the most adopted circumvention tools
>>>            among the
>>>                users in Iran. I am stating this fact based on what I
>>>            see in the
>>>                log files of Balatarin and what I was told by other
>>>            people who run
>>>                major Iranian websites. Also, I know that other
>>>            circumvention tool
>>>                projects have received much more funding than the $1.5
>>>            million
>>>                which GIFC is going to get. For that matter, it
>>>            completely makes
>>>                sense for the GIFC to ask for political support in the
>>>            congress to
>>>                pressure the State Department in spending the money on
>>>            the project
>>>                which has been delivering the numbers.
>>>
>>>                -mehdi
>>>
>>>
>>>                On Nov 18, 2010, at 8:14 PM, Rebecca MacKinnon wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704104104575622080860055498.html
>>>
>>>                    NOVEMBER 18, 2010, 10:21 A.M. ET
>>>
>>>                    No Quick Fixes for Internet Freedom
>>>                    The hard work to promote free speech online has
>>>                barely begun.
>>>
>>>                    By REBECCA MACKINNON
>>>
>>>                    Just before U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
>>>                arrived in
>>>                    Hanoi late last month, Vietnamese authorities
>>>                redoubled their
>>>                    assault on Internet dissent. Two more bloggers were
>>>                arrested and
>>>                    another due to be released had his sentence
>>>                extended. Dissident
>>>                    websites came under cyber attack, taking them
>>>                offline at a time
>>>                    when they most needed to be visible.
>>>
>>>                    Meanwhile in Washington, a battle is raging over
>>>                funding for
>>>                    organizations and projects supporting "Internet
>>>                freedom." Like
>>>                    many Washington fights, this one makes it harder for
>>>                the U.S.
>>>                    government to help real people with real problems.
>>>
>>>                    I study how governments seek to stifle and control
>>>                online
>>>                    dissent. Activists from the Middle East to Asia to
>>>                the former
>>>                    Soviet states have all been telling me that they
>>>                suffer from
>>>                    increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks. Such
>>>                attacks disable
>>>                    activists' websites at politically crucial times.
>>>                Email accounts
>>>                    are hacked and computer systems are breached,
>>>                enabling intruders
>>>                    to install spyware and monitor every electronic
>>>                move. They are
>>>                    desperate for training and technical help to fight
>>>                increasingly
>>>                    sophisticated, well-funded adversaries.
>>>
>>>                    The cyber-attacks are one of several new and
>>>                intractable problems
>>>                    faced by online activists, alongside the older and
>>>                more clear-cut
>>>                    problem of Internet censorship. A number of repressive
>>>                    governments, including Vietnam, Iran and China,
>>>                block local
>>>                    Internet users from accessing politically sensitive
>>>                overseas
>>>                    websites, as well as commercial social networking
>>>                services like
>>>                    Facebook and Twitter. Anybody can get around this
>>>                blockage if
>>>                    they know how to use what is called "circumvention
>>>                technology."
>>>                    Several U.S-based organizations have developed a
>>>                range of
>>>                    circumvention tools.
>>>
>>>                    Tools for circumventing censorship are indeed
>>>                important for
>>>                    activists. But they do nothing to protect against
>>>                cyber-attacks,
>>>                    or to address a growing number of other ways that
>>>                governments
>>>                    work to prevent activists from using the Internet to
>>>                access
>>>                    information, get their message out, and organize.
>>>                Still, many in
>>>                    Congress and the media have bought into the fantasy
>>>                that all the
>>>                    U.S. needs to do is put enough money into these
>>>                circumvention
>>>                    tools, and one in particular—and freedom will flood
>>>                through the
>>>                    crumbling firewalls.
>>>
>>>                    Since 2007, Congress has inserted a total of $50
>>>                million of
>>>                    earmarks into the State Department's budget to fund
>>>                organizations
>>>                    dedicated to fighting Internet censorship. One group
>>>                that has
>>>                    been lobbying hard for the money is the Global
>>>                Internet Freedom
>>>                    Consortium, run mainly by practitioners of the Falun
>>>                Gong, a
>>>                    religious sect banned in China. The GIFC has
>>>                produced a suite of
>>>                    circumvention tools that work well, as long as the
>>>                user doesn't
>>>                    mind that GIFC engineers can see their unencrypted
>>>                    communications, or that the security of the tool has
>>>                not been
>>>                    vetted by independent experts.
>>>
>>>                    The GIFC has found powerful allies in Mark Palmer,
>>>                who was U.S.
>>>                    ambassador to Hungary when the Iron Curtain fell,
>>>                and Michael
>>>                    Horowitz, a former Reagan administration official
>>>                and longtime
>>>                    advocate for human rights and religious freedom.
>>>                They argue that
>>>                    if the GIFC can get sufficient funding to scale up
>>>                their tools,
>>>                    authoritarian regimes will be brought to their knees.
>>>
>>>                    The State Department has come under fire in the
>>>                Journal, the
>>>                    Washington Post and the New York Times for failing
>>>                to support
>>>                    GIFC. And it's true that of the $20 million already
>>>                allocated,
>>>                    most went to other groups that are less radioactive
>>>                as far as
>>>                    U.S.-China relations are concerned. Some of these
>>>                groups work to
>>>                    help activists with training and security against
>>>                surveillance,
>>>                    cyber-attacks and other threats, in addition to
>>>                circumventing
>>>                    censorship.
>>>
>>>                    In August, $1.5 million out of $5 million available
>>>                for 2009 was
>>>                    finally awarded by the State Department to the GIFC
>>>                via the
>>>                    Broadcasting Board of Governors. The bidding process
>>>                for a
>>>                    remaining $30 million is expected to start soon.
>>>                With the
>>>                    mid-term elections now finished, we can look forward
>>>                to a new
>>>                    surge in the war over who gets to be hero of the
>>>                fairy tale
>>>                "Toppling the Iron Curtain 2.0"
>>>
>>>                    Meanwhile in real life, the human rights watchdog
>>>                organization
>>>                    Freedom House warns of a "global freedom recession."
>>>                They point
>>>                    to a decrease in online freedom even in many
>>>                countries that
>>>                    engage in little or no website blocking.
>>>
>>>                    Take Russia, for example. In a new book published by
>>>                the Open Net
>>>                    Initiative, "Access Controlled," University of
>>>                Toronto scholars
>>>                    Rafal Rohozinski and Ronald Deibert point out that
>>>                while the
>>>                    Russian government doesn't block many websites, it
>>>                stifles online
>>>                    dissent in a range of other ways. Government critics
>>>                in Russia
>>>                    face cyber-attacks, surveillance, and good
>>> old-fashioned
>>>                    intimidation.
>>>
>>>                    In a growing number of countries including China,
>>>                domestic
>>>                    Internet companies are enlisted in this effort
>>>                through regulatory
>>>                    pressures. Laws and mechanisms originally meant to
>>>                enforce
>>>                    copyright, protect children and fight online crime
>>>                are abused to
>>>                    silence or intimidate political critics.
>>>
>>>                    In real life, conceiving and implementing an
>>>                effective set of
>>>                    policies, programs, and tools for promoting a free
>>>                and open
>>>                    global Internet requires hard work by both the
>>>                public and private
>>>                    sectors. This work has barely begun.
>>>
>>>                    A range of fast-evolving technical problems requires
>>>                an array of
>>>                    solutions. Activists around the world need technical
>>>                assistance
>>>                    and training in order to fight cyber-attacks more
>>>                effectively. We
>>>                    need more coordination between human rights
>>>                activists, technology
>>>                    companies and policy makers just to understand the
>>>                problems, and
>>>                    how they can be expected to evolve in the next few
>>>                years.
>>>
>>>                    What's more, existing research indicates that many
>>>                of the
>>>                    problems aren't technical, but rather political,
>>> legal,
>>>                    regulatory and even social. Other obstacles to free
>>>                expression
>>>                    are probably best addressed by the private sector:
>>>                Social
>>>                    networking platforms like Facebook and Twitter
>>>                should be urged to
>>>                    adhere to business practices that maximize the safety
>>> of
>>>                    activists using their platforms.
>>>
>>>                    Circumvention technology is one tactic to support
>>>                access to
>>>                    information and online dissent. It makes sense to
>>>                keep funding
>>>                    these tools, so long as activists are given choice.
>>>                On their own,
>>>                    however, they are not the silver bullet that many
>>>                claim. The
>>>                    State Department and Congress need to approach
>>>                freedom of speech
>>>                    issues strategically, based on a clear understanding
>>>                of purpose
>>>                    and effect.
>>>
>>>                    Ms. MacKinnon is a Bernard L. Schwartz senior fellow
>>>                at the New
>>>                    America Foundation.
>>>
>>>                    --
>>>                    Rebecca MacKinnon
>>>                    Schwartz Senior Fellow, New America Foundation
>>>                    Co-founder, GlobalVoicesOnline.org
>>>                <http://GlobalVoicesOnline.org/>
>>>
>>>                    Cell: +1-617-939-3493
>>>                    E-mail: rebecca.mackinnon at gmail.com
>>>                <mailto:rebecca.mackinnon at gmail.com>
>>>                <mailto:rebecca.mackinnon at gmail.com
>>>                <mailto:rebecca.mackinnon at gmail.com>>
>>>
>>>                    Blog: http://RConversation.blogs.com
>>>                <http://RConversation.blogs.com/>
>>>                    Twitter: http://twitter.com/rmack
>>>
>>>
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