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Adopt a [Chinese] Blog

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the amazing-uses-for-the-internet dept.

malorkus writes "Here's a great way for bloggers and others with decent web hosting to help fight internet censorship in China and other restrictive countries. Adopt a Chinese Blog aims to match up censored bloggers with volunteer hosts."

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  1. World of Warcraft. by JavaLord · · Score: 1, Funny

    Fine, but what do I get in return? Will they farm my World of Warcraft gold for me? Make me a snow-globe or something?

  2. In soviet Russia by farker+haiku · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hrm... so,
    In Soviet Russia, Bloggers host you!

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  3. Adopt... by British · · Score: 5, Funny

    *Sally Struthers walks on*

    For just 5 megs a month you can adopt a Chinese blog. You will recieve letters, a digital camera picture and more from your sponsored blog. Your blog will recieve bandwidth, FTP access and encryption...

    Just 5 megs a month. Isn't that worth it?

  4. Out by Capt+James+McCarthy · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think I'll outsource my blog to India.

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    There are no loopholes. It's either legal or it's not.
  5. Outsourced by CorporateWhoremone · · Score: 3, Funny

    You can't outsource to the US. That just dosn't mesh with the United States' plan for global domination.

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  6. Re:Block by dkf · · Score: 2, Funny
    They wouldn't need to once they found out who it was and did away with the subversion personally.


    I thought it was Visual SourceSafe that we wanted to do away with...
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  7. Webspace by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    I'm looking for a free, fully-managed, load-balanced hosting environment with unlimited bandwidth and space, free domain registration, SQL Server and the dotNet framework.

    In exchange, I promise to be scathingly critical about nation you choose.

  8. Re:Block by NamShubCMX · · Score: 2, Funny
    And I have to wash my cat this weekend.

    Seems like a very good idea for a blog!

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