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Google Scales the Great Firewall, Falls Off 105 Minutes Later (techinasia.com)

Posted by msmash on from the breaking-the-wall dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Citizens of mainland China unexpectedly found themselves with unfettered access to Google search late last night, commencing a golden age of censorship-free searching that lasted all of 105 minutes. For the duration of the film Edward Scissorhands, lasting from 11:30pm on Sunday to 1:15am on Monday morning, Google's search -- but not other services like Gmail or YouTube -- was unblocked

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  1. Huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What does Edward Scissor-hands have to do with this? :/

    1. Re:Huh? by OzPeter · · Score: 2

      Submitter was trying for a unit of measure like Libraries-of-Congress for time but chose poorly

      especially when he could have chosen from a list of 178 movies of that length

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    2. Re:Huh? by avandesande · · Score: 3, Insightful

      It was sort of interesting at the time, but now it just another 'Johnny Depp Acting Weird Movie'

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    3. Re:Huh? by Sax+Russell+5449D29A · · Score: 4, Informative

      Ironically there's a film on that list called Firewall.

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    4. Re:Huh? by Nidi62 · · Score: 2

      Isn't EVERY Johnny Depp movie a "Johnny Depp Acting Weird" movie?

      He was actually one of the few normal characters in Platoon. Also interesting to hear him speak in Vietnamese.

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  2. I wonder by mdsolar · · Score: 2

    How popular were searches on organ harvesting of Falun Gong members?

  3. Great another unit of mesure by avandesande · · Score: 2

    It takes 3.5 edward scissorhandses for a library of congress to copy across the network a distance of 321 football fields.

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  4. Nothing to see here by mdsolar · · Score: 4, Informative

    Move along. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

  5. Will look at logs and jail people who used it? by Joe_Dragon · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Will look at logs and jail people who used it?

    1. Re:Will look at logs and jail people who used it? by shawn2772 · · Score: 2

      I won't comment on that project, though I've heard Jared Cohen's side of the story and it's quite different from how it's being painted, but that has absolutely nothing to do with providing Google logs to the US government. That project just collected and mapped publicly-available information, nothing whatsoever from inside Google.

  6. Re:Edward Scissorhands angst by buck-yar · · Score: 2

    Perfect, if their goal was confusion.

  7. "unfettered access" by fustakrakich · · Score: 2

    Is it really that easy to block? I would like to hear more about successes in circumvention, and prevention of future obstructions.

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