Censorship is not the only problem - the filter also makes visiting foreign web sites intolerably slow, so people don't even bother. One solution is to host yo

Censorship is not the only problem - the filter also makes visiting foreign web sites intolerably slow, so people don't even bother. One solution is to host your stuff in Hong Kong (which is what Google did). It's fast for both foreign and Chinese mainland visitors, it's not under the juridiction of the censorship bureau, and there's a more mature legal system in place. AFAIK, every western company that does business in China and every Chinese company that does businesses overseas has a presence in Hong Kong.