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The great firewall is much more advanced than that.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Peop...

Methods

* IP Blocking

* DNS Filtering

* URL Filtering

* Packet Filtering ( TCP, FTP, POP, SMTP, ETC)

* Connection resets of up to 30 minutes

Try this: http://search.china.alibaba.com -> Search for "Falun Dafa", you'll be cutoff for about 5 minutes or so completely. That includes not just GET, POST, BUT ALL TCP/UDP connections will be rest.



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