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The hactivists kept pounding away at the wall and Chinese today have found holes to dart through.

Still, sophisticated Chinese users report that it takes only some will and creativity to freely travel the Internet, thanks partly to Mr. Xia and other digital liberators.

Bill Xia left China for the US in the late 1990s. He keeps up with events in his homeland, mostly online.

To thwart censorship, many Internet users employ proxy networks, which act as portals to other sites and allow users to hide their computers' IP addresses.

The authorities have recently started arresting people for posting what it deems negative articles on overseas websites.

With new technology, they're now upgrading their system within a couple of months," said Bill Xia, president of Dynamic Internet Technology, a U.S.

What do DIT Inc. analysts think of the Berkman study?
This study provides by far the most comprehensive study of internet blockage in China about publicly available documents.

Using Freenet-China, software created this year, people in China have been able to get to banned sites and documents, including government documents on the Tiananmen Square massacre, and Web sites for

With 30,000 Net police specializing in Net censorship, the People’s Republic of China has developed the largest and most sophisticated IP blocking and content filtering system in the world, said Bill