Many repressive countries have created Internet censorship systems to prevent Internet users from accessing websites that are deemed inappropriate by their officials. In many cases, these websites are news, political, or religion websites and the main purpose for the ban is to protect the interest of the country's political parties.
FOE is a new censorship circumvention tool developed in-house by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (the Federal Government agency that oversees and supports the operations of Voice of America, Radio Free Asia, Radio Free Europe, and Radio Farda, andRadio, etc.) FOE allows Internet users to get RSS feeds and/or download small files without needing proxy servers. The main goals for the FOE project is to create a multi-platform architecture that allows Internet users to receive unbiased news and to give developers a tool to create new censorship circumvention programs.