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Light shed on scaling the 'Great Firewall'

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Eighty per cent of mainlanders scaling the 'Great Firewall' there go past the government blocks on websites simply to get access to basic services such as Google.

And according to the results of the survey, only 38 per cent believe internet censorship should be completely abolished.

The survey, launched by prominent blogger Jason Ng late last month, for the first time allows a look into the phenomenon of scaling the Great Firewall.

The poll of more than 5,300 mainlanders found that most people who circumvented government internet blocks were well-educated young people aged between 22 and 25.

And two-thirds of the respondents say they go over the Great Firewall every day.

Access to social networking platforms, such as Twitter and Facebook, which have been blocked since the middle of last year, came second as the reason to scale the Great Firewall, and access to foreign news websites that are otherwise banned in China finished third.

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