Bruce Schneier has posted on his blog about Richard Clayton’s attempts to work around the Chinese government’s content controls. This is, quite literally, child’s play (think parental consent and how kids locked in their room often figure out how to slip out the window).
Wondering if your website is blocked in China? Plug your URL into http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org, and you’ll know instantly if your page is reaching the Middle Kingdom’s 125 million Internet users. The slick site is the work of a group of artists and journalists who want “to make the censorship system transparent and keep open the discussion on censorship.” The site keeps a record of every URL tested and the result, revealing that the status of many blocked sites changes almost daily. If your site is available, you can even see a preview of how it appears to Chinese surfers.