Chinese Internet

Got a little glimpse of the censorship in China. From my hotel, I could post to blogs, but couldn't read any. The entire blogspot.com domain is blocked. Them bloggers, never know when they'll write something subversive. Best not to let anyone read them.

A classmate googled "Tiananmen Square, 1989" and got many links, none of which he could click through and see.

Once I linked up through my company's VPN, I could get access to everything, since I was effectively accessing the web from San Francisco, and not Shanghai. It would be cool to build a free VPN for the people of China, or anywhere else on the planet information is controlled.