The other possibility is that the "collateral freedom" approach fails, and the country drops the firewall still further, blocking sites such as Github and Amazon.
And when you consider the fact that the Syrian government filters the internet internally as well (blocking sites such as Facebook and Blogspot, among many others), you realise that users are left with very little wiggle room.
The amendment had been roundly criticised last week when it was added, as critics pointed out that it could be used to block sites such as YouTube.
Through the use of proxys and VPNs, Iranians successfully circumnavigate state censors that have blocked sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
A controversial amendment to the digital economy bill that could block sites such as YouTube is copied almost word-for-word from a draft written by the BPI, which lobbies on behalf of the British music industry.
Various government departments have shut down and restricted video sharing, censored online games, blocked overseas sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube (and my own website Danwei.org), closed locally hosted websites and stopped registrations of.cn domain names to foreigners and Chinese individuals.
The app can either be set to stimulus mode, in which luxuries such as a user-created playlist are taken away when goals aren't met, and consequence mode, in which laziness is met with "the disappointed glare of grumpy cat". SelfControl may be a simpler and more pragmatic choice; the app allows you to block certain sites, such as Twitter or Facebook, for an amount of time of your choosing.
The monitoring group Turkey Blocks and other organizations have accused the government of occasionally blocking social-media sites such as Twitter or Facebook, particularly after militant attacks.
Privacy campaigners, however, suggested that could lead to ISPs blocking access to sites such as YouTube.
The Great Firewall works in myriad ways to control what Chinese Internet users can see online, from obstructing searches on sensitive topics such as the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests to blocking entire Web sites, such as social media sites Facebook and Twitter.
While the Internet was once considered a threat to government hegemony (it continues to block certain web sites, such as CNN.com), the new national slogan is "the knowledge economy".
