During the last summer Olympics there was a lot of censorship going on the
web, because BBC own the transmission rights of the games not every one world
widw was able to watch the live Summer Olympic games.
Yet, the news was slow and the events were broadcast a day later in my
location.
For 5 monthly dollars, I was able to VPN encrypted, through the BBC
firewall. My Ip address was routed, as I was in England via the VPN host
local IP address. I was able to watch and enjoy the games live in my PC with
no issues. Yet the cable companies had the same problems.
In the other hands, some US web sites are censor to foreign nation viewers,
to beat this around, you could use VPN...
I still use tunnel bear.....