Not So Great (Fire) Wall

The Economist looks at China and the internet:

The firewall is porous. Imaginative users can find ways of searching for sensitive topics such as news about Falun Gong, a banned spiritual movement. In Google, entering the words “Falun Gong” will cause the entire results page to be blocked, but “FLG movement” will not. Many Chinese internet-users are well practised in configuring their internet browsers to route page requests through unblocked proxy servers outside China. These help bypass the firewall.

"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." --John Gilmore, Electronic Frontier Foundation