To what the publication mentions, and the article on the website "the great firewall" is a bit complicated to understand.
The “Great Firewall” as we know it is causing the DNS server to return an incorrect IP address for Mysterium’s domain [https://testnet.mysterium.network/], which results in traffic being diverted & black-holed to unreachable machines.
This technique is referred to as DNS interference, DNS poisoning or DNS spoofing.
To what the publication mentions, and the article on the website "the great firewall" is a bit complicated to understand.