Unblock YouTube Service Released for Netizens of Web-censoring Countries

Online, May 29, 2013 (Newswire.com) - As part of its ongoing anti-censorship campaign, idcloak has this week launched a dedicated proxy service for internet users wishing to unblock YouTube in countries where the site is unavailable. idcloak's Director of Marketing, Gill-Chris Welles, puts the circumvention release into context, "It is not that we feel YouTube is especially important to the censored world, the point here is protecting choice and a global Internet. Four countries currently block the site as a whole, when they have no reasonable justification to close off more than a tiny number of its pages. We firmly believe this kind of full-site government censorship should be outlawed. Our means of how to unblock YouTube and other highly-censored sites, offers a sanctuary for web freedom until such a day comes around."

The idcloak censorship circumvention service is offered as a free public service and requires no account login or download. A user selects an unblock YouTube proxy located beyond the limits of the censoring filters and their browser will access the media site, or any other, without restrictions.

Welles underlines that it is not just 'other countries' that have a use for this tool, "In nations where freedom of speech is protected, there are still examples where governments block access to individual pages on YouTube for political reasons. When state filtering of an individual page occurs, our YouTube proxies will circumvent the censoring act just as they would if the entire site were blocked."
One concern about the release of this free service is regarding misapplication: whether the proxies could be abused by students seeking to bypass protective censorship at school. Welles is reassuring in his response, "To use the public proxies in our list, you would need to reconfigure your browser's advanced network settings. Network administrators of any establishment have measures in place to prevent that type of tampering from happening. These IP proxies are for privately owned devices and could not be used on school computers."

idcloak is a Dallas web services company representing the interests of everyday users in the fields of privacy, security and freedom. For more information, see www.idcloak.com

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