"...eyep...now ya done gone on and done it"
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.
We were just in Beijing and Shanghai and couldn’t get ANY internet!
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. :)
"...eyep...now ya done gone on and done it"
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.
Not surprised. Baizuo is a word there.
Did you try to get any internet when you passed through China?
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.
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.
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.
I’m pretty sure its not blocked in Hong Kong,
Not at all - I use it there all the time. I guess we are too small to bother with. :)
Be careful. I’ve known several folks who have picked up computer spyware while in China.
More responsive to your question - FR generally doesn’t interact with Chinese activists. There is an occasional story about religious freedom issues there, but almost nothing that could be taken as an effort to stir up trouble within China. This site is not a threat to the Chinese government,and it apparently recognizes that fact.
ML/NJ
If you’re planning to stay a while, the are lots of companies that run VPN services to get around the great firewall of China.
FR is blocked in other countries. Really?
Where?