Twitter & YouTube (and others) banned in China
We’ve heard stories about government intrusion and censorship in China, including a recent stand-off with Google, but a couple of real-life examples have hit me just 24 hours into my trip: attempts to log onto Twitter & YouTube, for example, yield “dead links”. There are ways around this using Proxy Servers, but you have to be a bit resourceful, and I’m not looking to go out of my way to upset the Chinese government.
By the way, it was interesting to see the Google ads that appeared when I Googled “proxy servers”:
