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People have been commenting for years that westerner-oriented hotels appear to have less filtering than other places in China.
by greglindahl 9y ago
People have been commenting for years that westerner-oriented hotels appear to have less filtering than other places in China.
- bonzini 9y agoNot just hotels, it's common for businesses to be able to access Google (though not necessarily Facebook, Twitter, etc.). Interestingly, in one such westerner-oriented hotel it was pretty much impossible to use other (TCP-based) VPNs, presumably because they were already doing some kind of tunneling to Hong Kong and three layers of congestion control were too much...
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoThat seems to only be true in southern Chinese cities. You ain't gonna get around the gfw even in a five star western branded Beijing hotel.