Comment Re:The government still controls the .cn TLD (Score 1) 687
The Great Firewall now has DNS poisoning. To go to Facebook with a SOCKS proxy you have to run DNS requests through the proxy, by either setting it in the about:config or using FoxyProxy. Another way is to have a UMA-capable phone use Wi-Fi to serve up GPRS on Bluetooth. The GPRS is tunneled inside the UMA and your Western cell carrier is efffectively proxying the connection. Straight-up GPRS roaming (as with an iPhone for example) is blocked.
All this is far beyond your typical Chinese netzien.
I don't rememember this being the case as recently as a year ago; it was just those stinkin' reset packets..