I hope so. IIRC Jim started FR after kicking around on CompuServe in the late 80's early 90's, and it took a while for it to build -- for which I and a lot of others are grateful. But bear in mind, we're in a free society compared to the very restrictive world-wide internet. China does and can block content and/or access at any time for any reason, but they can't keep it all out. Just like DU; the CCP will try to slither in, but I think most will glom onto them fairly quickly.
There has been a huge change in news reporting in China, and not just with the internet.
Chinese people have noticed that for the first time they are getting detailed reports about Army involvement, involvement in the rescue and aid efforts. This did not used to be the case.
Before it was word of mouth from relatives and friends that knew of those that were called to go serve.
China can not put the information genie back in the bottle. They can and do block sites. They can not block all of them. And even if they could, anyone can pick up a copy of Time, Newsweek, New York Times, Washington Post and a gazillion other Western publications. FR is freely accessed. Foreigners live and work in China in very large numbers, freely discussion politics.
The only way to cut off information now would be to put society in a total lock down. To think that is going to happen is rediculas and rediculously uninformed.