Sorry as someone who lives in the mainland I can tell you that it  is NOT easy to get around the GFW(Great Fire Wall).<p>All websites related to T-o-r are blocked, even if you can get a hold of T-o-r the GFW blocks the IP that T-o-r initially connects to as well as the default ports.<p>Web proxies are useless unless they are https and even then if there are the wrong keywords in the https get request it's blocked. The GFW uses deep packet inspection, so not only are there blacklisted websites but they also analyse the content your viewing.<p>People say there are trivial methods to get around the GFW but I haven't found any that work(short of buying access to a VPN, and currently unless you have an international creditcard you can't). Where are the trivial methods that work if there are so many of them?<p>This is a censor-ship net where the gaps are constantly being closed, a few years ago it WAS trivial to get around, not anymore, and it's becoming more difficult as the GFW systems and methods advance (using technologies provided by western companies such as Nokia, Motorola, Microsoft etc)<p>note-formatted so post can get through the GFW