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said by ender7074  :Here's your internet connection. Now don't look at anything online with it or we kill you. Remember Uncle Mao is watching. Lovely country... but you do have to respect any government ballsy enough to send the family a bill for the bullet used to execute a loved one. I know that there is filtering of internet, but I can't say that I saw any of it when in China last winter. I used a public internet cafe in Tianjin and someone else used one in Dalian. I didn't have any real problems reaching any sites (including news sites for both Canada and the Phillipines). The only thing I did notice was that there were a lots of people using internet sites in the middle of the day. More so than when we had been in Europe (where they were generally only busy in the evenings). |
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| Did you try to access Flickr or any other sites blocked in China.
Sure you can load Flickr, but you can't see any possibly anti-communist images of your cat or loved ones ...
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| I'm pretty sure I got to Flickr (I was uploading pictures as I went). I visited Yahoo for news (just to see what was going on in the world), a Phillipine newspaper (for news for some of the guys back on the ship). I also sent a couple of emails, used the webmail function of my ISP. I probably also checked weather reports for upcoming ports, but I'm not sure. I had an hour to kill as the guy who had taken me there (through a maze of streets) was going to drop back for me later.
Most of the guys (no other women) in the place were playing online video games of some sort. I actually found that in South Korea as well. Other places people were doing a variety of things, but predominantly video games. I'm assuming online, but I could be incorrect. One or two were using headsets for chat (what they were chatting about - don't know). That's the unfortunate thing - not speaking the language gives you little insight to the people. Your interaction is limited to those who speak your language. I did spend some time chatting with the fellow and his wife who we'd made arrangements for transportation. We found a little more English spoken in Qingdao (site of 2008 sailing for the Olympics), but still not too much. |
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| said by A Lurker :I'm pretty sure I got to Flickr (I was uploading pictures as I went). I visited Yahoo for news (just to see what was going on in the world), a Phillipine newspaper (for news for some of the guys back on the ship). I also sent a couple of emails, used the webmail function of my ISP. I probably also checked weather reports for upcoming ports, but I'm not sure. I had an hour to kill as the guy who had taken me there (through a maze of streets) was going to drop back for me later. »www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c···ICKR.TMP
When was the last time you were in China, because last month some of my friends in the mainland were reporting that it was infact still blocked. |
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| said by pfak :When was the last time you were in China, because last month some of my friends in the mainland were reporting that it was infact still blocked. It was April 2007, but again, I'm not positive about Flickr. I'm pretty sure that I got to the site, but then found out I couldn't load the pictures from the machine I was on. I looked back and I did my uploading in South Korea. I did get to blogger in China though (I would think it would be a no no as well). I made an entry on April 4th from Xiangang. I The place I used in Xiangang didn't have enabled USB ports and I had a language barrier. When the fellow who had brought me (and spoke a little english) came back I found out that they would have scanned it for viruses and uploaded it for me, but by then I didn't want to spend any more time there. |
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