Info about how the Chinese government controls internet usage. The first half of the article is about low tech political solutions such as raiding people's houses in the middle of the night and throwing them in jail.
The second half is interesting though, and talks some about how the (only partially effective) blocking is done. It also mentions the dance between the anonymous web surfing proxies and the governments that want to limit access.
The report
home page -
pdf -
html
Test a URL to see if it is
blocked from China.
Dated: 11/07/2002