Poynter: Proxy Service Makes China's Blocks Useless

China's ongoing battle to control its citizens' internet usage is again slowing down its version of the web. It employs massive filtering servers to try to prevent citizens from seeing certain types of content, particularly stories and commentary focused on government officials, democracy, religious movements and other politically sensitive topics. In the ongoing cat and mouse technological arms race, a new proxy server developed in Taiwan is making that filtering much more difficult. Internet performance in China has been suffering.