China blocks Internet access to New York Times

Propaganda, if done correctly, is much more effective than blocking internet access or other forms of censorship.<p>Witness Fox News. I think it has done more to prevent conservative US readers from reading the New York Times than any amount of censorship could ever have done. Actually, active forms of censorship might well have increased the readership of the NYT.

Hey, men, this's not true, at least for me, I can visit <a href="http://nytimes.com" rel="nofollow">http://nytimes.com</a>, it's fast!

I can get nytimes in Beijing. It's useless reporting on this stuff as it changes all the time and even from connection to connection.

What's the problem with what the New York Times has been publishing about China recently?

It never ceases to amaze me that there are articles on the Chinese firewall. The list of permitted and denied sites changes pretty much daily (and even seemingly depending on where in any given city or province you are), and anybody who really wants to get to somewhere on the Internet has a good number of options to get to them with minimal hassle.

I wonder how effective this is. Does the Streisand effect (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect</a>) not apply in China?<p>Do people there just not care that their internet is heavily censored. Surely they're aware?