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You can get through the firewall, but that does not mean your traffic isn't monitored.

• mikeash 10y ago
  And potentially blocked adaptively. I haven't tried it recently, but it used to be fun to hit up a search engine while in China, search for "tiananmen square," and watch as the search site suddenly went "down" for about ten minutes.
  • schoen 10y ago
    Which is odd since Tiananmen Square is one of the main tourist attractions in Beijing. Did the government conclude that all English speakers are using it as metonymy for 6/4 or that there's too great a chance that English-language materials about the place will discuss it?
    • mikeash 10y ago
      I imagine it's some of both. If I do a Google search for it, the top result and about half of the first page are about the protests, and the famous "tank man" image, which is no good at all from their point of view.
• contingencies 10y ago
  Traffic is monitored globally.