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China Loses Facebook: BLOCKED by Beijing – China News

www.chinatravel.net — Well, as PRC security forces do whatever it is they're doing in Xinjiang while the Uighur minority-in-their-own-land and the imported Han majority work hard at killing each other, it appears Beijing has done what they do, and cracked down.

In this case, they're cracking down on all the social networking sites and tools we've all become so accustomed to, including, it appears to us here in Shanghai, Facebook, which would be a first.

Yes, Xinjiang did what Tibet couldn't, what the Olympics couldn't... and caused the apparatchicks behind the GFW to take Facebook away.

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Ryan 2 years 30 weeks ago

Y'know... I totally missed the pun on "Face"book upon first read. Funny.

TianjinExpats 2 years 30 weeks ago

I've been using HotSpotShield to get by the great firewall. Works great for facebook, youtube, and more. Has some annoying ads, but that's the price for face-dom.

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