Internet Filtering in China in 2004 2005 

Figure 7   Tibet Sites 

Sites Tested  

In State Result 

Proxy Result 

http://www.dalailama belgium2005.org/ 

Accessible 

Accessible 

http://www.gluckman.com/DalaiLama.html 

Accessible 

Accessible 

http://www.tibet.com/ 

Accessible 

Blocked 

http://worldbridges.com/Tibet/ 

Blocked 

Blocked 

http://www.dalailama.com/ 

Blocked 

Blocked 

http://www.freetibet.org/ 

Blocked 

Blocked 

http://www.boycottmadeinchina.org/ 

N/A 

Blocked 

http://www.buyhard.fsnet.co.uk/boycottchinafortibet.htm 

N/A 

Blocked 

http://www.studentsforafreetibet.org/ 

N/A 

Blocked 

http://www.tibet.ca/en/ 

N/A 

Blocked 

http://www.tibetanliberation.org/ 

N/A 

Blocked 

http://www.tibetjustice.org/index.html 

N/A 

Blocked 

Total (12 sites) 

50% 

83%   

C. In State Testing Results 

To analyze the experience that a typical Chinese user has when attempting to access Internet 

content, ONI had several volunteers run its distributed testing application from different access points 

within the country.   

1. Summary 

ONI's enumeration of China's filtering included two independent tests of 7929 URLs performed 

by volunteers at different access points within the country.  Unlike other countries in which ONI has 

tested filtering, China does not present users who attempt to access disapproved content with a  block 

page ; rather, users simply cannot access the material and often receive a general error message.  To 

identify instances where testers' inability to access a page was likely caused by China's filtering system, we 

defined sites as inaccessible due to blocking when two conditions were met: 

1.  Both of our testers were unable to reach the site, and 

2.  Both testers were, simultaneously, able to reach the site via a remote proxy server set up outside 

China for testing purposes. 

The chart below summarizes our testing results. 

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