This allows users to bypass Internet firewalls that block web sites by using DIT's Peer-to-peer (P2P)-like proxy network system.

[1][failed verification] FreeGate's anti-censorship capability is further enhanced by a new, unique[2] encryption and compression algorithm in the versions of 6.33 and above.

[4] Freegate was one of a dozen circumvention tools evaluated by a Freedom House-funded report based on user experience from China in 2010, which include Hotspot Shield, Tor, Ultra Surf.

[3] DIT also releases a tiny piece of software, FreeGate, which directly taps into DynaWeb's backbone and keeps a user connected to the dynamic channels automatically.

[3] Freegate was created by Falun Gong practitioners[7] and has been financed by the Broadcasting Board of Governors, a US governmental agency.

There were initial fears that the reports may be a ploy by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities to encourage removal of the software from computers,[16] but it was soon delisted as a threat.

[1] In 2013, it was reported that "pro-government electronic actors" in Syria sent electronic messages to rebels encouraging them to download a file named Freegate which was claimed to be designed to help dissidents circumvent state surveillance agencies, but actually it was a malware and the intruder was able to monitor what the victims were typing on their computers and read or remove the files.