If you care so much about monitoring and possible repercussions, better not just avoid tom.skype, but also generally avoid phone calls in china - that is naive.

Googling (why do you need google at all?) or researching sensitive topics when in the country - that is simply stupid.

If one news site doesn't work another does - that has been the way for the last decade now. Newssites, I have not once had a problem with pressdisplay.

Maybe my internet usage doesn't contain enough porn or pro-tibet progaganda... Seriously, limitations are minuscule in privat and business life, regardless how 'concerning' some anecdotes sound.