WTF...sitting at the Beijing airport and every website seems to work except for Facebook...is the Chinese gov't blocking it? (I know they're rather fond of controlling what people get to see)...but seriously...Facebook?
LowriderS10 Cream of the Crop  10,170 posts Likes: 12 Joined Mar 2008 Location: South Korea / Canada More info | Jan 18, 2012 01:06 | #1 WTF...sitting at the Beijing airport and every website seems to work except for Facebook...is the Chinese gov't blocking it? (I know they're rather fond of controlling what people get to see)...but seriously...Facebook? -=Prints For Sale at PIXELS=-
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LowriderS10 THREAD STARTER Cream of the Crop 10,170 posts Likes: 12 Joined Mar 2008 Location: South Korea / Canada More info | Jan 18, 2012 01:16 | #2 Wow...Google says yes...but, but, but...I just wanted to tell my friends I'm safe and sound, not incite rebellion. -=Prints For Sale at PIXELS=-
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Jan 18, 2012 09:56 | #3 After the press Facebook got over what happened in Egypt, wouldn't surprise me.
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LowriderS10 THREAD STARTER Cream of the Crop 10,170 posts Likes: 12 Joined Mar 2008 Location: South Korea / Canada More info | Jan 18, 2012 16:54 | #5 Dr Lazarus wrote in post #13725263  Use a proxy bypass if you want to get by the filters. thanks, but thankfully I had a pretty short layover...back in Canada now -=Prints For Sale at PIXELS=-
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EricXu Senior Member  688 posts Likes: 2 Joined Aug 2010 Location: Santa Clara, California More info | Jan 18, 2012 18:10 | #6 Facebook, Google Plus, YouTube, Vimeo, ImageShack, Picasa, Twitter, Blogspot, Wordpress, Google Docs, Amnesty International, Nobel Prize Foundation, China Bill of Rights, and a ton of other websites advocating our basic freedoms. The list goes on and on.
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roy416 Member  224 posts Joined Dec 2011 Location: Kalamazoo More info | Jan 23, 2012 21:53 | #7 no future without a powerful opposite party in China. Everything is going to blow out one day. Canon 6D, EF 24-105mm F4 L, EF 40mm F2.8 STM, EF 100mm F2.8
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Jan 24, 2012 13:18 | #8 Odd that they block it, I have no doubt FB management would be only too happy to sell the Chinese government all the data they could collect and mine on their citizens.
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digimanual Junior Member 27 posts Joined Jul 2008 More info | Mar 29, 2012 22:27 | #9 roy416 wrote in post #13757436 no future without a powerful opposite party in China. Everything is going to blow out one day.
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MesserschmittMan Senior Member  358 posts Likes: 1 Joined Nov 2011 Location: Christchurch, New Zealand More info | Mar 30, 2012 02:01 | #10 So glad I don't live in a country like China. Canon 7D | Canon 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 | Canon 50mm f/1.4 | Canon 70-200mm f4 IS L
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Mar 30, 2012 09:33 | #11 MesserschmittMan wrote in post #14179281 So glad I don't live in a country like China. having worked there for 3 years, i couldn't agree with you more. nice people, great food are the only positives that come to mine.
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ben_r_ -POTN's Three legged Support-  15,894 posts Likes: 13 Joined Nov 2007 Location: Sacramento, CA More info | Mar 30, 2012 11:50 | #12 They just want our money, they dont want our lifestyle [Gear List | Flickr
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