A Guide to Free and Paid Proxies, VPNs, and Their Friends – China News

www.chinabeyondthewall.com — If you live in China, then you know that poking your friends on Facebook or watching funny videos on Youtube is against the laws and the moral fibre of the People’s Republic and its population, as ratified by a recent white paper on Internet censorship. At the same time you surely know that everybody enjoys freedom of speech in China, because of sacred constitutional rights. This is particularly evident when the authorities clamp down on dozens of blogs.

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A Guide to Free and Paid Proxies, VPNs, and Their Friends

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