I've been living in Shenzhen for more than 4 years and have found it is a great place to live and work, as a foreigner. The internet is slow, unreliable and censored, but you get used to it and eventually learn how to setup an illegal satellite dish to get your news fix. Living in China is not for everyone though. It is terribly overcrowded, polluted, and generally disgusting in many ways. Few foreigners can tollerate the extreme differences in the environment, so there are not that many of us here. It's a great place to do business though.
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I am a US citizen who has been living in China for almost 2 years. About 1 month after Bush's visit to China, a lot of previously blocked web sites, such as cnn.com, suddenly seemed to open up. However, close inspection revealed the evil truth. China has implemented filtering and logging on an amazing scale. Last year, China Telecom signed a contract to buy roughly $50M worth of custom networking hardware from Cisco. Since then, they have been "upgrading" the networks and international connections with hard-core filtering and logging. Thanks a LOT CISCO! They have also hired a small army of nerds to actively monitor and block specific articles or whole sites that are not part of the Chinese brainwashing program. When I read CNN, I have to use a proxy server to see the real propaganda from the US. They seem to block or altar most articles about China. I also have to change my proxy servers at least once a day. They are actively blocking proxy servers now.
Interestingly, they seem to be watching/. nowadays. When this article was first posted, I had no difficulty reading it. Now, I have to use a proxy server to read it and make this post.
sneaky bastards...
There is no political solution to our troubled evolution.
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I've been living in Shenzhen for more than 4 years and have found it is a great place to live and work, as a foreigner. The internet is slow, unreliable and censored, but you get used to it and eventually learn how to setup an illegal satellite dish to get your news fix. Living in China is not for everyone though. It is terribly overcrowded, polluted, and generally disgusting in many ways. Few foreigners can tollerate the extreme differences in the environment, so there are not that many of us here. It's a great place to do business though.
I live in China, where everything from the BBC is blocked, so I can't even read the article...
grrr...
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I am a US citizen who has been living in China for almost 2 years. About 1 month after Bush's visit to China, a lot of previously blocked web sites, such as cnn.com, suddenly seemed to open up. However, close inspection revealed the evil truth. China has implemented filtering and logging on an amazing scale. Last year, China Telecom signed a contract to buy roughly $50M worth of custom networking hardware from Cisco. Since then, they have been "upgrading" the networks and international connections with hard-core filtering and logging. Thanks a LOT CISCO! They have also hired a small army of nerds to actively monitor and block specific articles or whole sites that are not part of the Chinese brainwashing program. When I read CNN, I have to use a proxy server to see the real propaganda from the US. They seem to block or altar most articles about China. I also have to change my proxy servers at least once a day. They are actively blocking proxy servers now.
/. nowadays. When this article was first posted, I had no difficulty reading it. Now, I have to use a proxy server to read it and make this post.
Interestingly, they seem to be watching
sneaky bastards...
There is no political solution to our troubled evolution.