For some reason, Canadians have elected the Liberal Party of Canada and their leader Justin Trudeau back into power. With a voter turn out of 62%, which means only 20.3% of the entire electorate of Canada actually voted for those clowns. But, there’s nothing we can do about that right now. What we need to worry about is what bills they will try to pass with the help of the Bloc Quebecois, and/or the NDP.
One bill we need to especially be fearful of is Bill C-10. This Bill is to amend the Broadcasting Act, and to make consequential amendments to other Acts. Basically, what this Act is trying to do is, control what someone accessing the Internet from a Canadian service provider can see. In most parts of the world, that’s called “censorship”.
Thinking that the Liberal government wont reintroduce Bill C-10 is a foolish bet, at best. Everyone in Canada, and indeed around the world knows that Justin Trudeau is after absolute power. After all, why do you think he called a $610 million election in the middle of a "pandemic"?
Now, enough about how our government will try to censor our last bit of freedom.... Let’s learn how to get around that censorship... In a totally LEGAL way.
There are many ways to circumvent government censorship, and firewalls. The simplest, and by far the most popular is called TOR (The Onion Router). TOR was designed in the 1990’s, with the idea of decentralizing servers, and getting around censorship and firewalls. Quite a technical set-up, and not used by many people. in the mid 2000’s however, the designers of TOR released the TOR Browser. It’s very simple to set-up. Just download, and install. Now bare in mind, this browser will run slower than what you’re used to, with Firefox, Safari, or whatever browser you currently use.
I personally connect to the Internet through TOR, by that I mean, when my computer boots up, it automatically connects to a TOR proxy. I use the TOR Browser, I have my Firefox Browser set-up to access web pages through a TOR proxy, and I also run a TOR Relay.
Not only can you access all sites on the World Wide Web, (WWW), but you also have access to a large portion of the dark web.
Look at it this way, the websites you currently visit end in .com, .net, .org, .edu, and the like. With the TOR Browser, you can access hidden sites (and there are millions of them) that end in .onion. Granted, the majority of the .oinion sites (commonly called ‘hidden services’), are NSFW, but there are a few gems out there, such as wikileaks, and other useful sites. And yes, there is an Onion entrance into Facebook (facebookcorewwwi.onion).
The TOR browser is a very simple set-up. I’m gong to assume that most of you are reading this on your Windows PC, or your mobile phone. In Windows, just point your favourite browser to https://www.torproject.org, and in the top right hand corner, click the Download Tor Browser link. As you can see, you can download the TOR Browser for all different devices, except an iOS device (iPhone or iPad). Do to restrictions, and Apple basically being nosy, they won't allow the TOR Browser to be installed on their devises. However, the next best thing is the Onion Browser. It's designed and being maintained by a guy who works very closely with the TOR Project.
Once you’ve downloaded and installed the TOR Browser, open it. You should be
slowly be surely greeted with a screen that looks like this.
The first time running the TOR Browser, the easiest, and best thing to do is simply go to a Search Engine.... I prefer Yahoo for this step, as they seem to be the only Search Engine who will have much, if anything to do with the dark web. So, go to www.yahoo.com, and don't be afraid. I say that because more than likely, the site will not appear in English. It'll be in whichever language in native to the country the router you're connected to is in. From there, just search for something like "TOR hidden services" or "TOR hidden wiki". Something like that, to get started. However, if you just want to keep using the World Wide Web as you previously did, then just do that. Nothing has changed for you except the browser you use, and the speed..... Remember, I said it would be noticeably slower.
I said there are more than one way to circumvent Censorship and firewalls. I will show you two more ways, but first, a quick lesson:
The Internet is a massive collection of computers, servers, and other devices connected around the world. The World Wide Web, (which is what most people use) is a very small portion of the Internet. Think of the Internet as an iceberg. You see a bit of the iceberg above the surface of the water, but you know that there is a much larger piece of the iceberg below the water. The small part of what you can see above the water, is the World Wide Web. aware of) to access not just the WWW, but also the deep, and dark web. One is a routing service called I2P. Again, a 100% free service supported by it's users. I have found this a bit too technical for my needs, so I generally don't use it.
As with I2P, Freenet is a free service, for circumventing firewalls and censorship. Also like I2P, Freenet is a bit slow, (well, a lot slow), and a bit too dependant on other users, which I suppose is good for security reasons. If you have the time an patience to wait for Freenet to connect to all the other hosts, then God bless you. It's just not for me.





















