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I can get nytimes in Beijing. It's useless reporting on this stuff as it changes all the time and even from connection to connection.
by alexbosworth 18y ago
I can get nytimes in Beijing. It's useless reporting on this stuff as it changes all the time and even from connection to connection.
- jhancock 18y agoexactly. China's "firewall" has become amazingly sophisticated. It can now block just pages of sites instead of whole sites. Also, there is the unsophisticated part, wherein, it does not behave the same everywhere. Some of this seems intentional and controlled differences based on location (In a western hotel in Shanghai vs. at my house in a middle class neighborhood). Other differences in location seem arbitrary. Her mystery is beautiful ;)
- trevelyan 18y agoPart of the unsophisticated part includes China Unicom and China Telecom not being able to maintain nationwide networks. I've had difficulty loading content hosted in Beijing from a browser on a different network elsewhere in Beijing. Historically, locations that have been given unfettered Internet access have purchased it from the telecoms at higher prices. There is no selective Internet filtering based on location of end users on the same network... yet.