Source: International Heral Tribune (2/4/08):

Chinese begin to protest censorship of Internet

WUHAN, China: As an 18-year-old student with an interest in the Internet,
Zhu Nan had been itching to say something about the country's pervasive
online censorship system, widely known here as the Great Firewall.

When China's censors began blocking access to the popular photo-sharing site
Flickr, Zhu felt the moment had come. Writing on his blog last year, the
student, who is now a freshman at a university in this city, questioned the
rationale for Internet restrictions, and in subsequent posts, began passing
along tips on how to evade them.
[...]

For the vast majority of Internet users, censorship still does not appear to
be much of a factor. The most popular Web applications here are games and
messaging services, and the most-visited Internet sites focus on everyday
subjects like entertainment news and sports. Many, in fact, seem only
vaguely aware that the Chinese Internet universe is carefully pruned, and
even among those who know, a majority hardly seems to care.

But growing numbers of others are becoming increasingly resentful of
restrictions on a wide range of Web sites, including Flickr, YouTube,
Wikipedia, MySpace (sometimes), Blogspot and many other sites that the
public sees as sources of harmless diversion or information.

The mounting resentment has inspired a wave of increasingly determined
social resistance of a kind that is uncommon in China.

This resistance is taking many forms, from lawsuits by Internet users
against government-owned service providers, claiming that the blocking of
sites is illegal, to a loose but growing network of software writers who
develop code aimed at overcoming the restrictions.
[...]
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/04/asia/wall.php

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