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Peking Over: Ways Around the Great Firewall

If you've lived in China a while, you start to think of the Great Firewall as simply a fact of life: a cultural quirk sometimes and a major pain the ass others. But if this latest YouTube/blog/Wikipedia ban's got you flummoxed (and you're too cheap/poor... ...full story at Shanghaiist

from Shanghaiist on Fri, May 22 2009

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