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Social ways to censorship?

Derek Bambauer and team are working on a project called "OpenNet Initialtive". We talked about censorship and anti-censorship in brief during the Harvard conference. I suggest they can employ some social technologies/methodologies to implement more trustworthy and usable proxy in the future. In censorship countries(actually many countries deployed censorship backdoors, even in US), common people doesn't know what they don't know if they are not technology savvy. So even basic proxy configuration seems too complext to mass population.

The social way is to enable people to see how many peers can't access one site when he wants to reach the site. Then automatically find a proxy for him from peer's database. The proxy lists are also dynamaically under social review to determine it's availability. The ideas are not easily implmented and widely deployed if not embeded in a wide spreaded software system. So a browser plugin or p2p software plugin could be a solution. Still need more arciluations...

I found two things yesterday: one is good that Firefox's "Auto proxy detection" really works in China; Another one is geocitygeocities is still inaccessible in China(Firefox reports operating overtime).

reference: Google Search & Cache Filtering Behind China's Great Firewall