hi @larry, what you need is a proxy server on the net thats not been discovered by those people. One that comes to mind is an ancient one that i used to use ages back japanweb.info. im sure however if you google there are gazillions out there willing to offer you means of bypassing the blockages. ikikataa just ask any skunk with a vps to give install squid and let you use it to access fb. :-) all the best. On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Larry Madowo <larrymads@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey good people,
Since (most of) y'all are techies and are better at this than me, I thought I might share this with you. Am in Beijing China and using this laptop that has never been used in China before. When I typed in 'google' on the address bar, it gave me results using Baidu!
Now, I gather that Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are blocked in China. Sadly, those are also some of my favourite sites for work and play reasons. So am staying at this '5-star' hotel and when I couldn't get on any of the sites from the wi-fi on PC or mobile, I started questioning its 5-star-ness. It only occurred to me later that this state choke-hold on info is for real here.
Anyway, I digress. Technically, you're not supposed to be able to get on these sites whichever way, right? Wrong. Because I can. I have Snaptu on my phone, its an app that does Twitter but also FB etc and I've set it to remember my details so I dont log in every time.
And I can do both FB & Twitter through it. How is that? Isnt it supposed to be impossible?
Any ideas?
Larry out
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