If you’d like to find out what it’s like to live behind a paranoid regime’s wall of silence download the China Channel plug-in for Firefox. This delightful product recreates the surfing experience of someone at a standard Internet-connected computer in China where searching for “Free Tibet” and “Tiananmen Square” brings you 10 minutes of dead air. The program routes your traffic through a Chinese IP address and gives you a taste of the Great Firewall in action. Thankfully, most of these censorship systems are trivial to beat but this still leaves a certain subset of the population unable to search comfortably and safely in cyber cafes and other public access points.http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/10/27/visit-beautiful-censorious-china-virtually/
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