The Great Firewall of China

Two steps forward, one step back...
At least China's citizens now have access to the Internet, just not the entire Internet. Any website, message, or packet that contain as little as one word from a list of black-listed terms (compiled by the PRC's Ministry of Public Security) will not be fully processed. Instead, the packets are reset and not allowed to continue to the next router. The user is usually left with a "broken link" message. This is cleverly dubbed the Great Firewall of China, but how fool-proof is it? Read Jacqui Cheng's article "Great Firewall of China more like chain-link fence", which discusses the new research from UC Davis and University of New Mexico CS Departments.

You can't help but root for the Chinese citizens. It's the classic Man vs. Establishment conflict but with a digital twist. The Internet is truly a force to be reckoned with. Not even a communist government can cage the global beast that is the Internet.