At least once before, I've commented on the state of censorship in China. Even now, as I write this, I have to use a paid proxy service just to access the blog. This illustrates a couple of points: (1) They're clearly blocking websites that pose no real threat to the stability of the government or China as a whole, and (2) It's pretty easy to circumvent the measures they take to block these sites.
I wanted to post a link to a recent article that I just found online. To paraphrase the opening paragraph, it offers a strange and fascinating glimpse into the minds of those who censor the mass media in this country, showing in detail exactly which subjects are off limits to journalists. Enjoy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/22/world/asia/22banned.html
P.S.- On a related note, I have been following the Google saga very closely, and though Google.cn is gone, I still have access to the U.S. site (via the proxy), as well as the Hong Kong site, to which Google users on the mainland are now redirected. But who knows how long that'll last.
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