How China Censors the Internet
Here’s an interesting post about one of the ways China censors the Internet. I’m pretty sure it’s not the only way they do it. My understanding is that in some cases they do IP-level filtering, so it doesn’t matter what your DNS server is. The most common workaround is to find a proxy server. There are several IM channels you can ping that respond with the url of a proxy server you can plug in to your connectivity settings. Pretty clever, that.
January 20th, 2006 at 1:24 pm
Hey thanks for the link. Yea, there are definitely lots of other ways that China censors the internet. Sorry for perhaps implying that this was the only way. I was just so happy to figure out why that one particular site was being blocked (and be able to explain it), even after I had long since left China.