Making a pro-democracy Chinese search engine?

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Making a pro-democracy Chinese search engine?

I feel really bad for the Chinese people. They don’t have the right to learn about or practice Falun Gong, or learn about democratic forms of government, join democratic organizations, or anything like that. They can’t even search Google for “falun gong.” If they do, they won’t be taken to any search results, but they might get a knock on the door and a jail sentence.

I have been wondering how you get access to an unfiltered search engine from within the “Great Firewall of China.” Could there be a way to provide a “tunnel” for users to gain access in some sort of encrypted way to a safe, democratic search engine? Perhaps access could be through peer-to-peer, or zombies, or some other method? Could websites or blogs serve as proxies, allowing Chinese residents to bounce their queries off those websites into Google.com and back? If that could happen, how would you obfuscate those queries so the Chinese don’t detect these outlawed “illegal” queries?

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