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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