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by araneae 5986 days ago
And livejournal.

I haven't been to China, but a friend of mine taught English at a university there for 2 years. She used a proxy server, but none of her students had even heard of them. (She was subverting the gov't by gently encouraging them to use them.)

It's irrelevant how easy it is to get around the censorship for Bill Gates. What's relevant is how effective the censorship is for Chinese people- and it is.