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Life Behind the Great Firewall of China

HONG KONG—Here in Hong Kong, the Internet is global. But just over the border in the Chinese boom town of Shenzhen , major international websites get shut down behind the famed "Great Firewall of China."

Watching the vibrant economic ferment in Shenzhen, it's hard to remember that you're in a totalitarian state. The Chinese folks I encountered were generally pretty blase about politics. Then again, Shenzhen is one of the richest cities in China, and the people I spoke to came from the relatively well-off professional classes.

So it was shocking to pull up a chair at Coco Park—a shopping mall in Shenzhen that's so expensive that I couldn't afford most of the things sold there—and be unable to access my Facebook page. Here in Hong Kong, Facebook is everywhere: ads on the subway regularly include companies' Facebook fan pages. Just next door in Shenzhen, Facebook is silent.

China's firewall (which is really called the "Golden Shield") is more subtle than you might imagine at first glance. I didn't have trouble accessing English-language news sites that were critical of the Chinese government—for instance, a BBC article about artist Ai Weiwei being freed from jail, or various articles about the Taiwanese presidential elections. News sites tend to become blocked or unblocked around major news events, according to frequent reports .

Some foreign-based social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare are blocked. This doesn't seem to be merely about preventing Chinese people from discussing controversial topics. It's also a way to nurture Chinese alternatives which both feed the Chinese economy and which the government can control, as the Telegraph explains . For instance, Sina Weibo is basically the Chinese Twitter.

MySpace is fast, easy, and permitted, but nobody seems to use it . MySpace owner Rupert Murdoch bent over backwards to make his global site into a "local" Chinese Internet property, but it's widely considered a failure when put up against other social-networking sites that are actually Chinese.

China's relationship with Google is very uneasy. Google isn't blocked—not exactly. But access to Google services is hideously slow, to the point where you wouldn't want to use them.

Various phrases also get blocked in Web searches. The government hates the meditation/exercise group Falun Gong, for instance. When I searched for "Falun Gong," not only did my computer return no results, it actually shut down my access to Google for about ten minutes.

HELP does anyone know good unblock proxies?? | Internet Dating Answers

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All of the modern firewalls filters like Websense can detect a proxy as soon as you connect to it. It’s actually incredibly trivial to do. The filtering software just tries to connect to the address in question. If it gets a response it’s a proxy and it’s then blocked. The only question is whether the system is set to auto block or if it emails or texts the admin and lets him do it manually, which can buy a few hours.

What needs to be considered is that in using a proxy to unblock school and work networks you are breaking numerous laws. Hacking a government (most schools are government run) security system is not legal. At work, you are probably also breaking laws about hacking as well as violating your employment agreement. Getting fired or suspended from school is a definite possibility at the least.

Even if you do get a proxy to work for a bit what do you get? A lot of these are hacker pots designed to either steal your information or plant bots on your computer that they can use. They use them to hide their identity by working through your computer and its internet connection. The recent Facebook and Twitter DDOS attacks that took down their entire networks is a classic example of what people using proxies and getting infected enables.

Even if it’s not a hacker pot it’s probably loaded with advertisements as that’s how the owner is making money. In either case the owner has no incentive to provide fast response or high bandwidth. The owner of the proxy is using you and delivering very little back to you. In fact, there is a good chance they are data mining you so they can sell your information to advertisers who want to target their ads. In most cases advanced web site features won’t work and only basic access will be available anyway.

At the end of the day you’re just wasting a lot of time that could be spent doing something more productive at best and risking your computer and more at the worst.

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