The Icarus Project

March 10, 2021•68 words

The Icarus Project is "an online repository for documented Internet censorship circumvention techniques and methods" for content publishers.

This is less about tools to access a blocked internet and more about how to publish and share information when you're a target of the blocking. It includes ways of running website mirrors, tricks with hosting, how to create websites that can only be reached through TOR, and so forth.

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