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Life without YouTube in the PRC

So you may have heard that YouTube is blocked in the PRC. Those of us who live here have come to depend on YouTube for little 2-minute clips of entertainment which keep us smiling throughout the workday. So now what do we do? Well, I was all set to... ...full story at Sinosplice

from Sinosplice on Sun, Oct 21 2007

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