internet - Are Chinese bloggers feeling blocked ?

Rebecca MacKinnon has been trying to find out whether Chinese bloggers are being blocked, are using proxies, and Amy Gu summerizes some of the reactions from China of bloggers who disagree with Rebecca. (Btw. for both of their weblogs you might need proxies to see them :-)).
Amy describes her experience after having felt the freedom of the internet for a few years in Hong Kong.

But when I went back from HK after studying for a while, I felt that I lost my freedom, coz' I couldn't visit many interesting websites I used to go to in HK. 'That's bad", I always complain to my Chinese friend now. I am not happy now.

A far more interesting dilemma Amy also mentions is the question why most people, in China, the US and elsewhere are not interested in what happens outside the legal borders of their country and - even if they have the possibility of looking further than their own country, very few ever do.
While the internet is giving a wealth of new information on whatever we want to know, ways to deal and select between all those bits and bytes in an fruitful way still seem to be very far away, despite many efforts. As websites, weblogs and aggregators become better and more comprehensive, my desperation increases. Traditional media are losing their function as an filter to the world, but I do get convinced we need other and new filters to prevent the current floodings.