"Tebit"

I'm sure that you've seen the stories of "Tebit" in the news (spell it backwards and you'll know what we're talking about).

I'm not making a comment about what this country should do in regards to "Tebit," I just want to show what life with censorship is like. You all know what the Great Wall of China is. Let me introduce you to the "Great Firewall of China" as it is known.

Look at this recent screenshot from cnn.com. The top link is entitled:
"China puts out its version of 'Tebit' unrest"

After clicking on that link, this is the result. The firewall will not allow the webpage to be displayed:

This is what the error message says:
"Problems with this Web page might prevent it from being displayed properly of functioning properly. In the future, you can display this message by double-clicking the warning icon displayed in the status bar."

This is the link to the story that was blocked: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/23/china.tibet.ap/index.html

As you can imagine, monitoring everything that is passing through the Internet within the country's borders to censor messages/content is a monumental computing task. As a result, we are limited in what we can see, and what we can see loads very slowly.

That's life here...