I lived for a year in china in 2003, the only sites I ever had a problem accessing were bbc news, and googles cache. Also, anonymizing proxy sites such as megaproxy are all blocked. Using any other proxy won't work either. Still had no problems with any american news sites, any pr0n or anything else. China's quite a cool place to live if you're a foreigner, but the authorities don't like you talking about sex, religion or politics, which is kind of difficult really. Still, I'd highly recommend going, it's a completely different lifestyle. And unless you're going to Beijing or Shanghai, you'll probably have to get used to being stared at.
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I lived for a year in china in 2003, the only sites I ever had a problem accessing were bbc news, and googles cache. Also, anonymizing proxy sites such as megaproxy are all blocked. Using any other proxy won't work either. Still had no problems with any american news sites, any pr0n or anything else. China's quite a cool place to live if you're a foreigner, but the authorities don't like you talking about sex, religion or politics, which is kind of difficult really. Still, I'd highly recommend going, it's a completely different lifestyle. And unless you're going to Beijing or Shanghai, you'll probably have to get used to being stared at.