VoIP = Solution to Chinese censorship?

[jms53]

This posting presents a concept of how VoIP could be used to bypass the GFW of China and bring uncensored news information to the masses.

Background:

GFW of China filters web content entering the country based on keywords identified by advanced filters.

Concept:
Install software on Chinese PC's and complementary software on PC's in unreglated countries.

Each time Chinese users wishes to conduct an unregulated search, a data request is entered in a blank field and submitted. P2P system connects data request to any available PC in an unregulated country.

Information is accessed through the complementary software, converted to speech, and retransmitted to China. GFW analyzes the data and finds it to be a voice packet rather than censorable web content. Chinese user is presented with a computerized voice reading of the words on the requested page.

Next, the software could use voice recognition to reproduce a 60-80% accurate text of the spoken words.

I am not familiar with the specifics of the GFW and therefore do not know if this concept is at all realistic.

In summary, the concept is to use a P2P VoIP network to bypass human rights compromising filters. Feasiblity is contingent upon government's inability to screen voice data for "unacceptable" content.

Interested in any comments.

[doctorgonzo]

Essentially, it's a voice proxy? It could work, but it is a pretty difficult way of going about it. There are proxy and anonymizer solutions already out there that pretty much do the same thing without voice: somebody in a place with censored web access uses a utility or a special website to do a search, the information is given to another computer in a free area that actually does the search, and this free computer returns the results to the censored computer (all encrypted, of course).

True, the bad guys (either a government, your employer, or a school) could block access to the proxy by IP address, header information, etc. But they could also block access to VoIP services too. In short, doing this by VoIP doesn't add much to existing anonymizer services.