Blocked since 2010 in Vietnam, the Danlambao site can now be accessed at this address:
To make this and the nine other chosen sites accessible to the public in these countries, Reporters Without Borders has created mirror copies and has placed each copy with such major cloud hosting services as Amazon and Microsoft.
Entitled #CollateralFreedom, this operation takes advantage of the fact that the governments of these countries will not want to block these services although they could. Blocking Amazon or Microsoft would hurt the thousands of tech companies that use them every day. The economic and political cost of blocking the mirror sites would therefore be too high.
Reporters Without Borders will maintain these mirror sites for several months.
The sites participating in Operation #CollateralFreedom:
1. Grani.ru, blocked in Russia, is now available here:
2. Fergananews.com, blocked in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, is now available here:
3. The Tibet Post, blocked in China, is now available here:
4. Dan Lam Bao, blocked in Vietnam, is now available here:
5. Mingjing News, blocked in China, is now available here:
6. Hablemos Press, blocked in Cuba, is now available here:
7. Gooya News, blocked in Iran, is now available here:
8. Gulf Centre for Human Rights, blocked in United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, is now available here:
9. Bahrain Mirror, blocked in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, is now available here:
This list can also be seen at the Operation #CollateralFreedom website:
To help make freely-reported news and information available in these countries, all Internet users are invited to join in this operation by posting this list on social networks with the #CollateralFreedom hashtag.
Benjamin Ismaïl
Head of Asia-Pacific Desk
Reporters Without Borders
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