[tsukikage]

...and yet when discussing ways to circumvent the Great Firewall of China, the term used is "Chinese censorship", never "Chinese bans".

This sounds like one of those irregular verb conjugations English is so full of: I ban; you go dark; he/she/it censors.

[dredmorbius]

GFoC specifically filters not only sites (banning) but specific topics, keywords, discussions, and participants (censorship).