Researchers Cracked the 'Great Firewall' in China

The Great Firewall has been in operation since 2009 in China, when the government clamped down on social media posting. The firewall has reached mythic standing, but a team of researchers from Harvard and the University of California San Diego managed to crack the firewall and examine it by creating their own social network and following the rules.

The research method was three-fold:

1. They collected posts as they appeared, before censors got to them, and then checked later to see how they had been altered.