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Free Republic is not blocked in China?
Vanity ^ | 05-31-18 | LadyDoc

Posted on 05/31/2018 1:31:21 AM PDT by LadyDoc

I just traveled through Shanghai airport, and found I couldn't reach a lot of American news sites and blogs while there on layover.

But Free Republic (and my RSS feed) were not blocked there.

So apparently the "great Firewall of China" doesn't block FR. Yet.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: china; internet
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Just a headsup for you international travelers. Ironically, I understand FR is blocked elsewhere. Anyone want to add observations.
1 posted on 05/31/2018 1:31:21 AM PDT by LadyDoc
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To: LadyDoc

I recall one overt Chinese FR subscriber but don’t remember his username. His interest was for China. I’m guessing that PLA officers are not as likely to discuss their positions now. They might even use U.S. proxies in order to avoid showing Chinese IP addresses to an admin.


2 posted on 05/31/2018 1:40:54 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: LadyDoc

We were just in Beijing and Shanghai and couldn’t get ANY internet!


3 posted on 05/31/2018 1:50:58 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy
the airport had wifi but I couldn't figure how to get on: My granddaughter figured it out for me. Presumably my tablet phone now has Chinese spy Ware on it...
4 posted on 05/31/2018 1:56:02 AM PDT by LadyDoc (Liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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To: LadyDoc

I would be interested in hearing confirmation of this.

Could be it is available at a place you are at, but would like to hear confirmation from others, all the same.

BTW I am posting this from a small coffee shop now, in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly known as Saigon) in Vietnam.

It is about to rain here. :)


5 posted on 05/31/2018 2:01:39 AM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: cba123

Confirmed. FR is not blocked in China, and neither is Zero Hedge. They want to ban Peppa Pig though for being subversive. And you can’t get the South China Morning Post (hong kong news) from mainland China either...


6 posted on 05/31/2018 2:10:17 AM PDT by Ragnar Danneskjöld
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To: LadyDoc

"...eyep...now ya done gone on and done it"

7 posted on 05/31/2018 2:14:56 AM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: LadyDoc

Chinese government tries once in awhile to propagandize on FR.
They usually get caught and lose face.
They don’t block us yet because of this.


8 posted on 05/31/2018 2:15:32 AM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: LadyDoc

Pretty sure the Cruise Line told us not to even TRY!


9 posted on 05/31/2018 2:39:20 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Darksheare

On the website for a small Chinese company I deal with (which shall remain nameless) I foung the word “Jesus” coded into the URL for each page. A quiet protest I guess.


10 posted on 05/31/2018 2:43:24 AM PDT by keat
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To: Ragnar Danneskjöld

That is interesting.

I had thought they were blocking FR there, I heard something a year or so ago, to that effect.

Also interesting the SCMP is blocked. Isn’t the owner pretty pro-Beijing?


11 posted on 05/31/2018 2:57:58 AM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: LadyDoc

Not surprised. Baizuo is a word there.


12 posted on 05/31/2018 3:01:08 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: wastoute

Interesting word, at that.


13 posted on 05/31/2018 3:06:33 AM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: cba123

It is pretty sad when the Chinese have a better grip on what is going on than we do.


14 posted on 05/31/2018 3:11:49 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: knarf

Did you try to get any internet when you passed through China?


15 posted on 05/31/2018 3:27:47 AM PDT by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: LadyDoc

I was in China three years on a two week trip around the country. I was able to access Free Republic everywhere I had internet service. My locations were from Shanghai to near Vietnam, and along the coast.


16 posted on 05/31/2018 4:44:56 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones.)
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To: LadyDoc; Mark17

I haven’t been to China for a few years but in the period from 2008 to 2015, I travelled there on numerous occasions...travelled all over the country and don’t ever remember FR being blocked unless the occasions where the entire internet was inaccessible were ones where it was actually ‘blocked’. Can’t comment on the last 3 or 4 years.


17 posted on 05/31/2018 4:48:45 AM PDT by hecticskeptic
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To: familyop

Chinaboy


18 posted on 05/31/2018 4:51:53 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Mother nature is a serial killer......)
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To: Darksheare

What you talk?

Chinese people fliend to us.

You mistake making.


19 posted on 05/31/2018 4:54:52 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (robert mueller is an unguided missile)
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To: LadyDoc

I spent five weeks traveling around China on business earlier this year. Free Republic works so well throughout China that I regularly used it to confirm that I had internet service in any given location.

China has blocked anything to do with Google which is very hard to get used to. Any attempt to do a Google search leads to a spinning wheel, and Gmail is inaccessible. I used a VPN to access blocked websites, but from what I hear the Chinese government has recently blocked most of them.


20 posted on 05/31/2018 5:03:32 AM PDT by Junk Silver ("It's a little hard to herd people onto trains when they're shooting at you." SirLurkedalot)
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