I just came across a somewhat unorthodox way to get around China’s Great Firewall.

If you’re apprehensive about the governement censors picking up on any of your sensitive content, you might want to consider using this wordpress plugin to set up a sort of Super Silent Stealth Ninja Blog:

Text to Image Plugin for Wordpress

What this plugin does is converts the text that you write on your blog into an image (png file), which obviously cannot be read by Chinese increasingly robot censors. So if you were to write about the forbidden 3 Ts (and no I don’t mean that chick with the 3 titties in Total Recall) or F@lun G0ng, you’d be safe from at least a part of China’s Net Nanny.

Drawbacks:

• China does still have human censors, and they just might find you.
• Your readers may have difficulty finding you via search engines, because just like the Chinese censors, google relies heavily on text-reading robots too. But if you’re confident the content is good, readers will most certainly come to you.

This is an interesting blog tweak for sure.

If anyone decides to test it out, be sure to let me know.

(h/t to Weblog Tools Collection)