Internet censoring is conducted under an array of laws and administrative regulations in China. More than 60 laws in relation to this have been created under the Peoples republic of China.

Interestingly these are enforced by provincial state owned ISP’s. However at times, mostly special occasions blocks to certain websites may be lifted. Hong Kong and Macau are the only cities which have their own regulation many times being much more lax.

Isps are blocked from being accessed many times and if so on a shared server all other sites will be blocked as well, giving no opportunity for a harmless website that does not go against Chinese rules to even be viewed by China.

One major problem in the enforcement is to determine who has real jurisdiction over the Internet. This causes many bureaucratic turf battles within the PRC government among various ministries and between central and local officials. The State council information office has the mandate to regulate the Internet, but then again other security agencies in mainland China also have a say.

So is there any real organizing of such efforts to block harmful content and doing a good job of it by the Chinese government? Hardly!

And just because this article was written it may very well be on a block list as well.