AVOIDING CENSORSHIP: STRATEGIES?

As the number of Internet users in China increases, the number of those taking advantage of technologies such as proxy servers, which make it possible to get around Internet censorship, is decreasing (33).

A 2000 survey of Internet use in five Chinese cities performed by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) concluded that 10% of users regularly use proxy servers to avoid censorship, and 25% of users occasionally use proxy servers to escape it (Guo and Bu 2001) (33).

“A 2005 CASS Internet user survey, asking the same question in door-to-door interviews in five major Chinese cities” concluded that 71.2% never use proxy servers to avoid censorship, and that only 0.6% frequently do (Guo et al. 2005) (33).

MacKinnon, Rebecca. “Flatter world and thicker walls? Blogs, censorship and civic discourse in China.” Public Choice 134.1 (2008): 31-46.