Internet Filtering in China in 2004 2005 

China, and various pro democracy Web sites.  We found extensive blocking in all categories, including 

anti Communist sites focused on China.  However, we were able to access a CNN site on the Tiananmen 

Square incident and a site calling for the American boycott of Chinese made goods.  The majority of sites 

within this category were tested via proxy only; see above for a comparison of proxy and in state results. 

Figure 5   Political Sites 

In State 

Proxy 

Sites Tested  

Result 

Result 

Category 

http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/tiananmen/ 

Accessible 

Accessible 

Tiananmen 

http://www.hrichina.org/ 

Blocked 

Blocked 

Human Rights 

http://www.tsquare.tv/ 

Blocked 

Blocked 

Tiananmen 

http://www.fillthesquare.org/ 

Blocked 

Blocked 

Tiananmen 

http://www.64memo.com/ 

Blocked 

N/A 

Tiananmen 

http://www.spacepub.com/users/china/ 

N/A 

Accessible 

Boycott 

http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/ 

Blocked 

theoharis.html 

N/A 

Anti Communist 

http://www.schwarzreport.org/ 

N/A 

Blocked 

Anti Communist 

http://www.niagara.com/~freedom/anticom/first.htm 

N/A 

Blocked 

Anti Communist 

http://www.informationblast.com/Anti communism.html 

N/A 

Blocked 

Anti Communist 

http://www.fact index.com/a/an/anti_communism.html 

N/A 

Blocked 

Anti Communist 

http://www.colorado.edu/AmStudies/lewis/2010/ 

Blocked 

mccarthy.htm 

N/A 

Anti Communist 

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ 

Blocked 

americananticommunists/ 

N/A 

Anti Communist 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti communism 

N/A 

Blocked 

Anti Communist 

http://newstrolls.com/news/dev/guest/010899 2.htm 

N/A 

Blocked 

Opposition 

http://www.svdc.org/Main.html 

N/A 

Blocked 

Pro democracy 

http://www.innermongolia.org/ 

N/A 

Blocked 

Pro democracy 

http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/7288/ 

N/A 

Blocked 

Pro democracy 

http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/6901/index.html 

N/A 

Blocked 

Pro democracy 

http://www.freechina.net/pfdc/ 

N/A 

Blocked 

Pro democracy 

Total (20 sites) 

80% 

89%   

4. Taiwan 

We tested sites containing general information on Taiwan as well as those advocating 

independence from China.  While our proxy testing found an extremely high level of blocking, in state 

testing revealed a more moderate picture, with half of the tested sites blocked.  The home page of the 

Taiwanese government was found blocked in both tests, as was the page of an organization committed to 

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