The BBC interviews blogger and Internet entrepreneur Isaac Mao about the ways Chinese citizens are circumventing state censorship online:
But the firewall is not unbreakable, at least to some Chinese internet users.
“Just two years ago, only 5% of Chinese internet users knew that the government censored the internet,” Mr Mao says.
Roughly 20% of Chinese internet users now understand what ‘Fan Qiang’ (‘circumventing the firewall’) means, and they also have a strong determination to do so
Zhou Shuguang, blogger“But today, information flows faster and faster and people try to use different tools to spread information between social networks.”
“There are a minority of users who can use technology to bypass censorship. No more than one or two percent. More users – about 18% – have become second-hand information consumers from those savvy users.”
“So roughly 20% of Chinese internet users now understand what ‘Fan Qiang’ (‘circumventing the firewall’) means, and they also have a strong determination to do so.”
