And livejournal.<p>I haven't been to China, but a friend of mine taught English at a university there for 2 years.  She used a proxy server, but none of her students had even heard of them.  (She was subverting the gov't by gently encouraging them to use them.)<p>It's irrelevant how <i>easy</i> it is to get around the censorship for Bill Gates.  What's relevant is how <i>effective</i> the censorship is for Chinese people- and it is.