we're bummed about this. it's probably a fruitless exercise, but does anyone have any insight into how to get unblocked?
If you've got a solution and need a tester, I'd be happy to test. I'm running MacOSX this side of the GFW.
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#62Chinese gov is ridiculous. My girlfriend made a one word posting on the Chinese clone of facebook that read "freedom". The post disappeared in minutes and she received a private message warning her that her account may be deleted if she continues making such posts. One upside is that Chinese people seem to be a little more tech savvy. ie. many of them are forced to learn about proxy servers so they can go around the…
What services do people use to proxy around it? Just curious.
besides using VPN (we were using anchorshield back then but now it's blocked) I was using gladder. A firefox plugin which allows you to use a proxy only in a tab. Great plugin. Helped me a lot.
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#63we're bummed about this. it's probably a fruitless exercise, but does anyone have any insight into how to get unblocked?
Depends on why it was blocked. Generally speaking if it's because of a local competitor (eg youku or renren (vs youtube or facebook)) I would not hold my breath.
If think you're looking at the problem the other way around.
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#64If all non-Chinese servers rejected any requests from China, would this be counter-productive? Basically if everyone else banded together and said "You can have all of it or none of it, but you can't pick and choose." would this force open China's hand or would it just make things miserable for people that actually care. The number of people that actually care is a very very small percentage; most of my Chinese friends don't care about accessing material from outside China. They're interested in games, chatting, and watching movies.
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#65I will throw my 2-cents in. My wife posted the name CCP on the Chinese version of Twitter and received an immediate message. Scared her enough to quit for good. For those who can read mandarin: http://twitpic.com/19h81p
We need to push our representatives to call foul on WTO violations. These are unfair business practices as web-based companies need to be protected too.
It's all about "block and copy" so the west is losing precious resources and hard-earned IP.
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#66When I read the comment about how "it was an honor" to be banned by the GFWoC, this poem cam to mind. "When the regime ordered Books with dangerous knowledge To be burned in public and everywhere Oxen were forced to pull, carts with books to the bonfires, one of the persecuted poets discovered one of the best studying the list of the burned disconcerted, that his books were forgotten. He rushed to his desk, flying on…
So poignant a comment, I wish that I could do more than upvote.
Regards.
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#67If all non-Chinese servers rejected any requests from China, would this be counter-productive? Basically if everyone else banded together and said "You can have all of it or none of it, but you can't pick and choose." would this force open China's hand or would it just make things miserable for people that actually care. The number of people that actually care is a very very small percentage; most of my Chinese frien…
That does not sound like a winning strategy to drive a wedge between the Chinese regime and stridently nationalist Chinese consumers.
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#69I hope dropbox will refund the payment to all the users who are now unable to use their service.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not trying to doubt you, but was it really just a one word post that elicited that reaction? Did the message come from Facebook or someone else? Is this a common occurrence? That level of censorship boggles the mind...
I'd like to point out that it wasn't Facebook, but "the Chinese Facebook." Facebook is behind the great firewall; there's a local clone.
A local clone is not Facebook. Just like Baidu is not Google. Please be accurate, especially on such sensitive topics.