Or at least, the Grass Mud Horse can’t give a damn about the Great Firewall.

In China, Googling the country’s president — as in his name — is an offence punishable by an instant connection reset on Google.com. It is also an offence to make reference to the Tian’anmen incident, as well as to believe in a “certain kind of qigong cult”. The government punishes those online hors-la-lois with the ubiquitous connection reset or the former Google China refrain of fame: “By law, certain search results are not shown”.

That’s the Chinese Great Firewall, blocking you the content you really need. With censorship worsening since the Beijing Olympics (outside sources have warned at the North Korea-ization of the PRC), the Netizenry aren’t simply harkening to Zhongnanhai’s newest commandments about what is considered verboten content online. Instead, they’re venting their anger by means of a Grass Mud Horse (a Net species only), which in spoken Chinese sounds very similar to a common curse: f*ck your mother, most often heard in the streets of the capital, Beijing.

As of late, we’ve been alerted to a new T-shirt coming out, with the Grass Mud Horse “flying” over the Great Firewall. The Chinese Netizenry started with proxies and now are onto more “advanced technologies” for those determined to get to — say — the latest stories about corrupt railway officials and their third wives, which the government’s all about suppressing.

Not sure where you can get that T-shirt — but it’s one your tech blogger has his sights set on. There’s, of course, also the danger that by wearing this, you’re probably going to be arrested for wearing “reactionary propaganda” — if the policeman has a bad day.