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 <title>Picturing Tor censorship in China</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-partially-blocked-china&quot;&gt;reported&lt;/a&gt;, Tor was partially blocked by China on September 25th or so in anticipation of the CCP October 1, 2009 60th anniversary.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here&#039;s what one directory mirror recorded for September, &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://blog.torproject.org/files/2009-10-12-china-dirreq-trusted.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And here&#039;s the growth of &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.torproject.org/bridges&quot;&gt;bridge&lt;/a&gt; users in response.  Alas, like our graphs of &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.torproject.org/blog/measuring-tor-and-iran-part-two&quot;&gt;bridge use in Iran in June 2009&lt;/a&gt;, we only have relative counts for bridge use, not absolute counts. But with a 70x increase in a week, we are talking about 10000+ bridge users:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://blog.torproject.org/files/2009-10-12-china-bridge-usage.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:56:10 -0700</pubDate>
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