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Explore the Web From China

Posted by samzenpus on from the walking-in-somebody-else's-shoes dept.

An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Download.com: "It slows down your browsing. It makes some Web sites inaccessible for no discernible reason. It doesn't even offer you any xiao long bao or pu'er tea for your troubles. But if you want to know what life behind the Great Firewall of China is like, then the Firefox plug-in China Channel is the cheapest and fastest way to experience using the Internet in China without actually being there."

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  1. Answer: Proxy by Slashdot+Parent · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sorry to reply to my own post, but I just found in TFA where it says that the plugin routes you through a Chinese proxy.

    I can't imagine this open proxy will last long.

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    They don't grade fathers, but if your daughter's a stripper, you fucked up. --Chris Rock
  2. Re:Or, for Aussies... by kaos07 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Regarding the Australian filter, it doesn't look like it's going to happen.

    The Green party and the Liberal party are both going to block the legislation in the Upper House. Their numbers combined are enough to stop the bill from passing.

    http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/10/30/1224956188036.html

    The Greens don't get much of their other policies talked about very much, besides the environment, but they have the most pro-Slashdot internet platform out of any political party. By that I mean they support open standards, net-neutrality and internet freedom (no censorship). They also want the government to embrace open source and all government documents to saved in an open document standard.