Did you call the GFC a “Panopticon” to imply that the Chinese Internet is a prison?
We never intended this sort of political connotation. The target audience of our paper were other technical researchers whose research focus is on privacy and censorship, and we were trying to communicate that censorship mechanisms do not have to be 100% effective to fulfill the goals of the censor. This is important because it means that evading the GFC is a harder problem. While evading a firewall a single time defeats its purpose, it would be necessary to evade a Panopticon almost every time.
