[stevendaniels]

The thing about the great firewall... It only affects expats or visitors to China.

Any Chinese person who wants to read the NYTimes can get access to it. Anyone who wants to read about the "Three T's" can find away (good luck finding anyone). Chinese people who want to spend all day on the Facebook or the Twitter, will.

But the rest of the Chinese internet, the 99% of them, being disconnected from the rest of the world's internet, doesn't matter that much. They have neither the desire nor the interest to look at blocked pages. They're happy with the Chinese-language internet they have.

Personally, I'm starting to believe the Great Firewall is mostly there to annoy expats like me.