[donaldc]

One might argue that the more technologically incompetent the censors are, the better.

[guard-of-terra]

No. They'll just break the whole internet by banning Google ip one day.

[gizmo686]

Exactly. How many people do you think would notice if they banned some Google ip's. If they banned some Google domains, people would notice, but a banned IP would just mean one fewer Google servers in that region.

[guard-of-terra]

You're wrong assessing consequences. This happened in Russia and big chunk of Blogger and GMail attachment downloads went completely down.