There are several ways you can access these sites.<br>One is using a VPN connection to your organisation(which I used while there)<br>The other is using a web based proxy, which is what I suspect snaptu uses.<br><br>During my stay there, google had redirected <a href="http://www.google.cn">www.google.cn</a> to <a href="http://www.google.cn.hk">www.google.cn.hk</a> (hong kong)....i guess now the govt stepped in and redirected google.* to baidu....<br>
<br><br>./bernard<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Larry Madowo <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:larrymads@gmail.com">larrymads@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Hey good people,<br><br>Since (most of) y&#39;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 &#39;google&#39; on the address bar, it gave me results using Baidu!<br>

<br>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 &#39;5-star&#39; hotel and when I couldn&#39;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.<br>

<br>Anyway, I digress. Technically, you&#39;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&#39;ve set it to remember my details so I dont log in every time.<br>

<br>And I can do both FB &amp; Twitter through it. How is that? Isnt it supposed to be impossible?<br><br>Any ideas?<br><br>Larry out<br><font color="#888888"><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Twitter: @LarryMadowo<br>Facebook.com/LarryMadowo<br>

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