ChristianAnarchist
12-26-2012, 03:51 PM
Those familiar with me know that we travel to China about twice a year to visit my wife's family (she's Chinese, of course). China really isn't as bad as most people think but their internet censorship simply DRIVES ME CRAZY!! Thing is, I know that it's only a matter of time before the thugs in D.C. also start censoring the internet. We already know they intercept EVERYTHING and store it for future use (prosecuting us for "thought crimes"?) China is the proving grounds for the internet censorship coming to a neighborhood near you!!
Currently I'm using a giganews account to create a VPN connection to Hong Kong which is still uncensored. I could also connect to other places, but I figured Hong Kong would provide the fastest connection. VPN has been the tool of choice for getting past the censors here in China but they are now starting to kill VPN. When using McDonalds 30 minutes of free internet, I found that VPN was simply blocked. I was not successful in making a connection. At my mother-in-laws apartment in Wuhan, I can make the connection, but it lasts about 20 minutes and then disconnects for unknown reason. After the disconnect, I am unable to reconnect for about 10 minutes. It's clear that they are trying to disrupt the best known way around the censor.
Killing VPN has it's some issues of it's own. Most major corporations rely on VPN to connect their networks securely. If they simply block all VPN connections, business will suffer and perhaps some companies will stop dealing with the Chinese thugs. If they could "see" into the encrypted tunnel they would be happy because then they could apply their filters to that data stream. Of course then all corporate "privacy" will be compromised and they will seek a new tunneling network connection.
Without VPN, I cannot even pull up youtube, facebook, twitter, and many other sites due to past "infractions" that have angered the thugs. Even web pages I can pull up like Drudge, if they link to something the censors don't like, that link will dead end. There was a link on Drudge about the letter in the Halloween decorations that I tried to read, but when I did not have my VPN, I could not read it.
We know that there are many well-intentioned individuals and some major players who are screaming for filters on the internet to eliminate "child-porn" and "terrorist activity", but that's not why the powers that be want the control, they want to stop you from reading the truth about them.
Currently I'm using a giganews account to create a VPN connection to Hong Kong which is still uncensored. I could also connect to other places, but I figured Hong Kong would provide the fastest connection. VPN has been the tool of choice for getting past the censors here in China but they are now starting to kill VPN. When using McDonalds 30 minutes of free internet, I found that VPN was simply blocked. I was not successful in making a connection. At my mother-in-laws apartment in Wuhan, I can make the connection, but it lasts about 20 minutes and then disconnects for unknown reason. After the disconnect, I am unable to reconnect for about 10 minutes. It's clear that they are trying to disrupt the best known way around the censor.
Killing VPN has it's some issues of it's own. Most major corporations rely on VPN to connect their networks securely. If they simply block all VPN connections, business will suffer and perhaps some companies will stop dealing with the Chinese thugs. If they could "see" into the encrypted tunnel they would be happy because then they could apply their filters to that data stream. Of course then all corporate "privacy" will be compromised and they will seek a new tunneling network connection.
Without VPN, I cannot even pull up youtube, facebook, twitter, and many other sites due to past "infractions" that have angered the thugs. Even web pages I can pull up like Drudge, if they link to something the censors don't like, that link will dead end. There was a link on Drudge about the letter in the Halloween decorations that I tried to read, but when I did not have my VPN, I could not read it.
We know that there are many well-intentioned individuals and some major players who are screaming for filters on the internet to eliminate "child-porn" and "terrorist activity", but that's not why the powers that be want the control, they want to stop you from reading the truth about them.