Peer-to-peer Censorship Dodging

Professor Jonathan Zittrain's article, "Dodging the Internet  Censor," was recently featured in the South China Morning Post.  He begins the piece noting that Western journalists go to great lengths for an ability to attain information for their reporting, but show considerably less interest in insuring that their work will be  accessible to people in countries whose media systems are vulnerable to government censorship.  He offers peer-to-peer  technologies as one way to address the issue:

Peer-to-peer technologies make filtering more difficult, because  they make nearly any consumer of information part of the process of  transmitting it. For example, news organisations could conclude  deals with other companies to ensure that uncensored reports are  echoed from one free server to the next. That would defy Beijing to  filter the entire internet if it wants to eliminate content...

Berkman fellow Rebecca MacKinnon followed up on the full article at her blog, posting her thoughts on the liklihood of news  organizations adopting peer-to-peer technology and expanding  forward into a continued conversation with Professor Zittrain about this issue.  Check out their back and forth conversation here.