The firewall is easily bypassed with a proxy, so anyone with a modicum of technological intelligence can get around it. Sheep will continue to be blocked by it.
I lived in China and had no problem visiting the sites that I wanted. You can't stop the progress of the internet. No one controls it 100%. The only kinds of controls that are being implemented are content filters to make people think that the top 0.0001% of what their search engine gives them is "the internet". It's all perceptual.
If myself and three friends buy wifi plugins for USB, we can create our own mini network. There's no stopping networking from happening. China is not that in control. Their society is freer than ours on a basic, day to day level. The reason is that all levels of authority and government can be bribed. Their culture understands that human connections will always trump the rules. In the western world, the government always trumps people connections, which is why our societies are dying a slow death, especially in the United States.
