internet - Why technology-driven censorship research does not work

The Washington Post summerizes yet another investigation into the way the Chinese internet filters work. The problem this that the focus is purely technological and that is part of the problem I have with this kind of research.
This kind of research only makes sense with observation made on the ground. Strategies to go around the often-failing filtering technology is so common place that controlling the internet is an illusion. But since this illusion matches the classic way of framing the China-story by the Western media, top-down, evil and powerful, papers like the Washington Post just repeat the assumptions of the researchers without asking any critical questions.

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