[sort3d]

I'd assumed up to this point that the "Great Firewall" of China was primarily intended to censor and control China's own population. Now I'm thinking it's main purpose was as a strategic defense initiative. Now they can attack more freely without fearing for their own infrastructure.

[aneth4]

It's a good point.

Censorship is also a cloak for protectionism. Facebook, Ebay, Google, etc have all been banned or throttled to make way for censorship. It says something that censorship is more tolerated by the world than overt protectionism, and that trade protectionism must be done in the good name of censorship.