Posted on 05/31/2018 1:31:21 AM PDT by LadyDoc
I just traveled through Shanghai airport, and found I couldn't reach a lot of American news sites and blogs while there on layover.
But Free Republic (and my RSS feed) were not blocked there.
So apparently the "great Firewall of China" doesn't block FR. Yet.
I recall one overt Chinese FR subscriber but don’t remember his username. His interest was for China. I’m guessing that PLA officers are not as likely to discuss their positions now. They might even use U.S. proxies in order to avoid showing Chinese IP addresses to an admin.
We were just in Beijing and Shanghai and couldn’t get ANY internet!
I would be interested in hearing confirmation of this.
Could be it is available at a place you are at, but would like to hear confirmation from others, all the same.
BTW I am posting this from a small coffee shop now, in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly known as Saigon) in Vietnam.
It is about to rain here. :)
Confirmed. FR is not blocked in China, and neither is Zero Hedge. They want to ban Peppa Pig though for being subversive. And you can’t get the South China Morning Post (hong kong news) from mainland China either...
"...eyep...now ya done gone on and done it"
Chinese government tries once in awhile to propagandize on FR.
They usually get caught and lose face.
They don’t block us yet because of this.
Pretty sure the Cruise Line told us not to even TRY!
On the website for a small Chinese company I deal with (which shall remain nameless) I foung the word “Jesus” coded into the URL for each page. A quiet protest I guess.
That is interesting.
I had thought they were blocking FR there, I heard something a year or so ago, to that effect.
Also interesting the SCMP is blocked. Isn’t the owner pretty pro-Beijing?
Not surprised. Baizuo is a word there.
Interesting word, at that.
It is pretty sad when the Chinese have a better grip on what is going on than we do.
Did you try to get any internet when you passed through China?
I was in China three years on a two week trip around the country. I was able to access Free Republic everywhere I had internet service. My locations were from Shanghai to near Vietnam, and along the coast.
I haven’t been to China for a few years but in the period from 2008 to 2015, I travelled there on numerous occasions...travelled all over the country and don’t ever remember FR being blocked unless the occasions where the entire internet was inaccessible were ones where it was actually ‘blocked’. Can’t comment on the last 3 or 4 years.
Chinaboy
What you talk?
Chinese people fliend to us.
You mistake making.
I spent five weeks traveling around China on business earlier this year. Free Republic works so well throughout China that I regularly used it to confirm that I had internet service in any given location.
China has blocked anything to do with Google which is very hard to get used to. Any attempt to do a Google search leads to a spinning wheel, and Gmail is inaccessible. I used a VPN to access blocked websites, but from what I hear the Chinese government has recently blocked most of them.
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