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A Traveler’s Guide to Jumping the Great Firewall

by Jessica Marsden on May 5, 2010

UPDATE: Almost as soon as this post was published, I started to have problems connecting to Google’s English-language search service, Google Reader and other products hosted at google.com. The latest from Google here. After the spring’s Google brouhaha, anyone coming to China is probably familiar with the “Great Firewall” — the combination of software and [...]

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Links roundup: Urumqi edition

by Jessica Marsden on July 7, 2009

As information trickles out about the protests and violence in Xinjiang over the weekend, I have mixed feelings about being outside of China for what appears to be a very significant series of events. On the one hand, I wish I knew what (if anything) was happening to the Uighurs who live in my neighborhood, [...]

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Links roundup (Norway edition)

by Jessica Marsden on June 30, 2009

Norway wasn’t lacking for Internet connections, but I wasn’t exactly eager to spend time glued to a computer screen. As a result, my welcome-home present was a Google Reader crowded with new and interesting posts. A few of the highlights: The recent uptick in Chinese web censorship: Rebecca Mackinnon offers a comprehensive roundup of “The [...]

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The Net Nanny is getting stricter

by Jessica Marsden on June 2, 2009

Not travel-related per se, but visitors to China who want to keep in touch with people and news back home may run into China’s Internet censors, nicknamed the Net Nanny or the Great Firewall. With the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre/protests/uprising/incident coming up on Thursday, the reins of censorship have been drawn tighter. YouTube [...]

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