The Great Firewall of China - Samples of Filtered Sites

Loligo writes "Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society has released a study listing some of the sites filtered by Chinese internet connections. Sites about Taiwan are maybe understandable, but Red Lobster?" We've mentioned the ongoing Berkman study before; one of their interesting findings is that the list of blocked sites is a moving target, and some sites are blocked only intermittently. Here are summaries from The New York Times and MSNBC, by way of The Censorware Project. Update: 12/04 21:03 GMT by T : Seth Finkelstein points to his report "Searching Through the Great Firewall of China," which "describes a simple technique which can be used with some search engines to bypass censorware bans on searching for forbidden words. Particular emphasis is placed on the situation of the Great Firewall Of China."

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Change GET to POST - automagically.

[gleam]

<A HREF="javascript:(function(){var x,i; x = document.forms; for (i = 0;
i < x.length; ++i) x[i].method=%22post%22; alert(%22Changed %22 + x.length + %22
forms to use the POST method. After submitting a form from this page, you shoul
d be able to bookmark the result.%22); })();" ADD_DATE="1035609001" LAST_CHARSET
="ISO-8859-1">frmPost</A>

Add the above link (yes I know it's not a link, but you know what to do) to your bookmarks. When you are at a page using GET forms and you want to change them to POST, simply click on this in your bookmarks list, and it will change all GETs to POSTs.

Modified from a base at Jesse's Bookmarklet's

It should work in all versions of mozilla and MSIE 4 (or maybe 5)+

Hope this helps,
gleam