It is interesting though as others will likely make the same (erroneous) conclusion that if links are blocked at that point that they are blocked systemically. I wonder what the actual filter impact is across the region?

Thanks Alan!

If you read the fine print on the Great Firewall of China site, they are actually testing urls against a single server in a single city —

“We’ve opened a website in China and route your url request on greatfirewallofchina.org through to our server in China. The server in China opens the url and the result is send back. Our testing is only based on one server on one location in China”

I see it more as an interesting way to highlight the issue of governmental content censorship, and a public effort to shine light there.

Cheers?

John