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Experience the censored Chinese internet at home!

chunking express — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 08:48:18 -0800

China Channel Firefox Add-on: Experience the censored Chinese internet at home!

The Firefox add-on China Channel offers internet users outside of China the ability to surf the web as if they were inside mainland China. Take an unforgetable virtual trip to China and experience the technical expertise of the Chinese Ministry of Information Industry (supported by western companies). It's open source, free and easy.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:07:33 -0800

"I don't have to go to the Arctic to know that it's cold."

By: roll truck roll

roll truck roll — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:13:06 -0800

Interesting. I wanted to try it, but the plugin doesn't seem to work for me. I see the red "GO" button, but the only choice in the drop-down box is "None." I like the idea of the single input for two computers.

By: cardern

cardern — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:23:15 -0800

Well, that was slow. The only differences were the speed and the blocked websites (of which there weren't actually that many.) The website chinaisevil.com isn't blocked, I found that funny.

By: rokusan

rokusan — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:33:59 -0800

Pretty brilliant idea. Comparing Google results is interesting.

By: Artw

Artw — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:49:00 -0800

b4d m1lk.

By: mannequito

mannequito — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:50:23 -0800

Excellent! Now Palin can add China to the list of countries she has foreign experience with!

By: cjorgensen

cjorgensen — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:56:59 -0800

Chinastan!

By: Mr_Zero

Mr_Zero — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:06:47 -0800

I can't wait for the Australian version.

By: Pollomacho

Pollomacho — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:06:55 -0800

My experience was that the Great Firewall was far less obtrusive than the firewall at the Department of Homeland Security. It was also far easier to bypass.

By: Liquidwolf

Liquidwolf — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:10:56 -0800

Be careful, this thing is liable to annex certain nearby less powerful servers on your computer.

By: Inspector.Gadget

Inspector.Gadget — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:20:05 -0800

Google [___Porn____] [_Search_] Did you mean: Glorious Chairman Mao Google [___Drugs____] [_Search_] Did you mean: Great Leap Forward Google [___Motorhead____] [_Search_] Did you mean: Ways to undermine the neoliberal pigdogs

By: clearly

clearly — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:12:52 -0800

Where did MetaFilter go?

By: Abiezer

Abiezer — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:19:45 -0800

Thanks but I subscribed earlier!

By: Effigy2000

Effigy2000 — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:38:55 -0800

mannequito: "Excellent! Now Palin can add China to the list of countries she has foreign experience with!" If Palin knew how to install a Firefox extension, let alone knew how to browse the web unassisted, I'd be surprised.

By: 0xFCAF

0xFCAF — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:25:57 -0800

I was in China for four months (though with plenty of means to go around the firewall). When I was going through the firewall, only one interesting thing happened. I was surfing Wikipedia and clicked on the Freenet article to see what it was up to these days. All of a sudden, Wikipedia was not an accessible host. Like, instantly. Requests for other Wikipedia pages failed faster than I've ever seen any other request fail. Other internet sites worked fine. After about 15 minutes, it went back to normal. Also, everything (everything) was slow. But that might have just been my shitty DSL connection.