As the international community descends on China for the 2008 Summer Olympics, they will be bringing a globe's worth of information with them. China's famous heavy handed approach to internet control will be shut off for a certain block of IP addresses in the olympic village and local venues where foreign media personnel are expected to be working. China uses a series of filters to determine what content is blocked, noting specific web addresses or even crawling the content of a page for "dangerous" keywords and ideas. The firewall can be employed in both directions, with searches being checked and results censored to prevent the release of unauthorized or unfavorable content. This brief opening of the firewall is just the latest step China is taking to answer, or at least silence, concerns of the international community about human rights in the communist country.
-Avi Kushlan
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200803/chinese-firewall?reddit
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