No, not really. Unlike China, our government is too dumb to even do it correctly. You can easily bypass the Great Chinese Firewall with iptables: http://www.s

No, not really. Unlike China, our government is too dumb to even do it correctly. You can easily bypass the Great Chinese Firewall with iptables: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/06/ignoring_the_gr.html#c83747 http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/06/ignoring_the_g... tl;dr: iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --tcp-flags RST RST -j DROP