So we all have been watching the Olympics. If you’re like me, you try to follow a few updates on the internet rather than having to sit through the many hours of commercials (some of which are very creative yet very highly repetitive!) on NBC.

Ever wonder what the average Chinese person views on the internet? It’s a fact that China has more internet users than any other country in the world. Actually, China has more internet users than America has people! Whoa.

But I point your attention to these two articles by the BBC. It is a well known fact that China and many other countries have elaborate filtering systems to censor and block what their people view and can not view on the internet. For example, if you go now to the New York Times on the web, you will see certain content that someone in China will not see. Sometimes entire sites are blocked.

This creates challenges for believers both in the country and out. Yet, as history has shown, these articles describe how motivated Chinese web users are learning to circumvent parts of the system. Viral and peer to peer sharing of information has allowed web content to multiply and morph almost instantly. This is good news for the Message we try to communicate via the net.

BBC Article: Great Firewall of China
BBC Article: Policing the Web