internet - Reading all those funny things on blocked websites

Surfing the internet is a pretty dangerous thing to do I read here in Shanghai on the (blocked) website of the BBC:

Many activists used to think that the more people that were online the harder it
would be to censor, said Mr Pain [of Reporters without Borders]. But, by contrast, censorship of political debate in China seems to be getting more effective...Said Mr Pain: "Surveillance is much easier in cyberspace than in the real world."

When that would be true,many more people would be in problems. Playing hide and seek is much easier in cyberspace and that is why - for example - the most effective tools in the People's war against Pornography were a phone number and an email address. Not sophisticated software. (Apologies to all those dilligent IT-engineers.)
It is a pity that western media treat their audiences as dummies, who can only understand China in pretty straight forward (and often untrue) cliches.