Blocked China Web Users Rage Against Great Firewall – Reuters

From Reuters:

Yang Zhou is no cyberdissident, but recent curbs on his Web surfing habits by China’s censors have him fomenting discontent about China’s “Great Firewall”.



Yang’s fury erupted a few days ago when he found he could not browse his friend’s holiday snaps on Flickr.com , due to access restrictions by censors after images of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre were posted on the photo-sharing Web site.”

“Once you’ve complained all you can to your friends, what more can you do? What else is there but anger and disillusionment?” Yang said after venting his anger with friends at a hot-pot restaurant in Beijing.[Full Text]

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Danwei translated a Chinese blogger‘s mockery of the Great Firewall (a.k.a GFW):

GFW

2008 ” Let our society be even more harmonious

China’s Internet blocks everything under the sun [Full Text]

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