I lived in China for 8 years and am about to move back from the Us in Dec. 09. The censors there are not permanent — as in the re-directs and blocks happens sometimes, not all the time — but they are recurring. I have been unable to access youtube or facebook WHILE IN THE US and my google search is re-directed to Baidu aprox. 1/10 of the time. Even once is unacceptable. it does not ahppen all the time, but at least once a day, my solution so far has been to shut down, re boot an d carry on, because this seems to shake Baidue for a while

But the facts remain: my searches are re-directed, i am unable to access certain sites and it is recurring. This means that there is an embedded “something” (sorry i am not a techie) on my computer doing this. I have removed cookies, searched for hidden files, changed preferences, installed Little Snitch and found that there is a .cn TCP that re-directs me.

If there is anyone out there who knows why and how to fix this, (seeing as I am in the US and this is happening, please let me know)

I see on this forum that some cats in China think this is all a lie and some cats in the US are hating on China.

The facts are, China censors its internet and engages in shady business practices. Period. I am not going to get into the US vs. China thing because the US is just as criminal in many other ways. I am not getting relativistic or whatever. The deal is, my computer is censored and compromised and I have not yet been able to fix it.

So instead of getting into politics and such, I am looking for a geek. A super geek to help me out.

Cheers,
Sascha

any clarification at
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I don’t know what to do today, The olympics is growing a little dull so I’ve been browing the internet looking for interesting topics….

the google searching technology is a joke. It only gives lossy searching results. On the contrast, Baidu understands me better.

There is a story buzzing around the web today that China is blocking access to all three major U.S. search engines. Visitors are not being blocked, but rather are being redirected to China’s top search engine, Baidu.
Guess what? That is cheating. …

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Why would it happen in SA?

The whole world comes to the US to study (even Europeans); they got the most dough, the best teachers, and the most resources.

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RE: the story:

I’ve seen NOTHING of this in either the Taiwanese (where I am) news nor any of the China centric blogs I follow. Fake, fake, fake.

As for Baidu, if your into finding free .mp3 of Asian pop music, or Chinese script search, it is fantastic.

Google.cn goes blank if users input any potentially sensitive words, well, that isn’t anything new, but what’s amazing is that when I searched “17th Big” (17th national congress of people’s republic of china), google.cn stopped the service and let no one make a search on it. weird.

I’m chinese I was out for a few days so I can’t say what happened, but right now I can visit google and all other search engines without seeing any problems.

Yes china has lots lots lots of problems, but just like a human, s/he grows up from a baby, no one is always doing things right, your mom also tells you not to do this and that, everyone makes funny mistakes before s/he become an adults.

I also am disappointed with tons of places of my country, but it’s our home, we born in here, which was not our fault… God bless all of you, when you open your mouth and say “chinese are stupid, chinese this, and chinese that”, think about there are so many chinese people reading what your saying, it’s not ethical to blame on us because if you have ever travelled here in Beijing, you will see how people here are friendly to you…

I’ve been reading techcrunch for a long time.
I always see this Duncan Riley Gauy posts something about China.
I’m wondering if you are in the department of china market’s editor team? If this is the case, I would suggest you to come over here and have a deep investigate at the chinese IT market first. Otherwise, post less ‘articles’ with your sentiment, give us more ‘reports’ with numbers and reference. Btw, i did not hear anything about this in China, but from the western bloggers!

I dont like baidu, too. I’ve been living in the US for many years, and I like google.