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Comments on: Why the Chinese Olympic Net censorship won't work (unless the Western press wants it to)

China has decided to censor journalists' access to sites the government doesn't like. But how can this possibly work?

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by goober_nut July 30, 2008 8:53 AM PDT
Why not use Privoxy or another proxy server to circumvent the block?
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by ThomasCrampton July 31, 2008 8:24 AM PDT
A former CNN Beijing bureau chief offers a bunch of tips for getting around the Great Firewall:

http://www.thomascrampton.com/china/beijing-olympics-advice-from-ex-cnn-journalist/

Some very useful.
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by ThomasCrampton July 31, 2008 8:25 AM PDT
A former CNN Beijing bureau chief offers a bunch of tips for getting around the Great Firewall:

http://www.thomascrampton.com/china/beijing-olympics-advice-from-ex-cnn-journalist/

Some very useful.
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by nickj1088 August 1, 2008 1:43 PM PDT
who sends their editor naked pictures of their new boyfriend?
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by stueyg August 21, 2008 7:42 PM PDT
I live in Beijing and it is easy to get around the censorship. Webproxies are easiest and TOR works, but tends to be slow.
During the riots in tibet personal email was censored; especially hotmail/gmail.
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