Taiwan is not a third world country, and depending on who you ask not even a country. Anyway blocking out all of asia is probably a bad idea for many businesses.
Wouldn't you be in deep trouble if they caught you using a bypassing method? I wouldn't put it above the government to make you "go missing" after they catch you. SSH, after all, is relatively easy to track. The chinese government doesn't quite work like that.. They don't care to much about a few people being able to bypass any measures, they care about the huge masses of internet users who just give up immediately if a page is blocked. A few geeks (in addition to most foreigners in china) won't start a revolution..
Using google's cache would have been a nice solution, if it wasn't for the little detail that google's cache is blocked by the great firewall... And the proxy thing wouldn't have worked since the actual connection to the rest of the world was almost completely broken and the only internet site outside of china that really worked these days was google(at least for me).
I'm living in China, and the doctors here have a vested interest in selling me the most expensive drugs they have in stock. If it wasn't for me self-diagnosing with Google, I would have not only spent a ridiculous amount on medicine I don't really need. I would also been unaware that, at least on one occation, the medicine the doctors have convinced me to buy is highly recommended _not_ to be given to people with prior kidney-problems(like myself).
I suppose if you live in a country with a decent medical system, using Google for these things is a bad plan, but for me it is the best medical advice I can get without going to Hong Kong.
I recomend you use tor http://tor.eff.org/ combined with Firefox with the torbutton extension https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2275/. It will save you a lot of headache looking for proxies. Ofcourse if you use public computers, this won't be possible...
A quick test of certain articles indicates the government has moved to more fine grained blocking. The page of some events 17 years ago did not load, but trying to load it did not temporarily block the ip(which is what happens if it just stalls on banned words). So I guess they have decided that cencoring all of wikipedia is overkill..
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Taiwan is not a third world country, and depending on who you ask not even a country. Anyway blocking out all of asia is probably a bad idea for many businesses.
The article specificly says the man lives in Shenzhen(like myself). Shenzhen is most certainly not in Taiwan...
Using google's cache would have been a nice solution, if it wasn't for the little detail that google's cache is blocked by the great firewall... And the proxy thing wouldn't have worked since the actual connection to the rest of the world was almost completely broken and the only internet site outside of china that really worked these days was google(at least for me).
It is a ban. I have checked it with traceroute, and it stops on an IP address owned by Chinanet. (Chinanet=Great Firewall)
I'm living in China, and the doctors here have a vested interest in selling me the most expensive drugs they have in stock. If it wasn't for me self-diagnosing with Google, I would have not only spent a ridiculous amount on medicine I don't really need. I would also been unaware that, at least on one occation, the medicine the doctors have convinced me to buy is highly recommended _not_ to be given to people with prior kidney-problems(like myself). I suppose if you live in a country with a decent medical system, using Google for these things is a bad plan, but for me it is the best medical advice I can get without going to Hong Kong.
I recomend you use tor http://tor.eff.org/ combined with Firefox with the torbutton extension https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2275/. It will save you a lot of headache looking for proxies. Ofcourse if you use public computers, this won't be possible...
There is a chinese version, but it is still blocked...
A quick test of certain articles indicates the government has moved to more fine grained blocking. The page of some events 17 years ago did not load, but trying to load it did not temporarily block the ip(which is what happens if it just stalls on banned words). So I guess they have decided that cencoring all of wikipedia is overkill..