QUOTE(Tenboro @ Feb 18 2012, 08:41)

Ask your ISP why they are routing DNS requests through an oppressive police state?
Location, location, location. South Korea is so heavily wired that most of the northern trans-oceanic lines probably transit through that country. If the lines don't terminate but completely transit through, then they would be exempted from censorship due to trade laws regulating commerce transit that exist as a result of the WTO and other plurilateral trade agreements. The location contribution to internet censorship is exemplified with ACTA for example; most of africa's internet communications go through cables at the Strait of Gibraltor and it was very important for ACTA to control both sides of the Strait in order to force a total tiering bottleneck. That's why Morocco is one of the principal founding members of ACTA on par with the USA. With both Spain and Morocco as part of ACTA, this would force internet communications to/from the african continent to also conform to ACTA. Ratification by as few as 6 of the principal signatories would cause ACTA to become active.