Anonymizer Inc.’s president, founder and chief scientist, Lance Cottrell, has been fighting for “the people” to uphold basic civil liberties in repressive regimes for more than a decade. He is also the leading advocate of online identity protection and privacy rights. These issues are finally becoming better understood through current affairs (i.e. China censorship by U.S. tech leaders, search engine privacy issues, White House subpoenas, NSA wiretaps, and more).

Cottrell and his company are enabling a safe, protected, free and uncensored Internet. In fact, they are currently providing anti-censorship services in Iran, and now (once again) for the people of China (at their own expense, I might add).

Below is a statement that was made in last week’s hearing by Congressman Chris Smith, Chairman of the House International Relations Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and International Operations:

“Earlier this month, the technology firm Anonymizer announced that it is developing a new anti-censorship technology that will enable Chinese citizens to safely access the entire Internet filter-free. The solution will provide a regularly changing URL so that users can likely access the uncensored Internet. In addition, users’ identities are apparently protected from online monitoring by the Chinese regime. Lance Cottrell of Anonymizer said it ‘is not willing to sit idly by while the freedom of the Internet is slowly crushed. We take pride in the fact that our online privacy and security solutions provide access to global information for those under the thumb of repressive regimes.’”

The entire statement can be read here.

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