China's Great Wall of Firewall

The video "Is China's Firewall the Most POWERFUL in the World?" on the YouTube channel "CyberGuard Essentials+" discusses the effectiveness of China's Great Firewall, a system of internet censorship. The video highlights Shadowsocks, a tool developed by a Chinese programmer named CL Windy in 2012 to help people bypass internet restrictions imposed by the Chinese government. Shadowsocks encrypts internet traffic, making it difficult for the firewall to detect and block. CL Windy was forced to stop working on Shadowsocks due to pressure from the Chinese government, but the tool continues to be maintained by the open source community. This video provides insight into how people in countries with internet censorship overcome these restrictions and access freely available online information.