How to Access Youtube,Facebook, Twitter in China. VPN,SSH or Proxy.

Nowadays, there are more and more expats in China.  Mainly they lived in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou.,etc. In China, you have to face a serious problems: How to access free internet. Due to the sophisticated GFW, you can not access youtube, facebook and twitter in China. I saw most expats choose to buy an expensive VPN to solve the headache.

In fact, you can have a better solution: ask local Chinese to know how to climb the GFW easily without costing you  a penny.  Some chinese netizens know much more about the ISP of China, such as China Telcom or Netcom. Just like me

Of course, most of Chinese netizens doesn’t even know the exist of GFW, so what you need to know is to find the young internet geek of China. The better way is to use twitter to contact them. Chinese netizens who get a twitter account means he is a geek who can easily climb the wall.

If you are in China or you will come to china and you worried about how to access free internet in China. You can follow me via twitter  @newsinchina

So far, Baidu have been the faceless bad guy: China’s biggest internet search engine has grown market share, after its rival Google refused to bow to censorship demands.

But Baidu wants you to like it. Today its founder and chief executive Robin Li hosted a meet-and-greet with journalists, then rang the Nasdaq’s opening bell from Beijing.

Censorship, he argued, isn’t beneficial to Baidu either.

“It is not an advantage for Baidu because we have to block things,” he said. “It does not give us better user experience.”

FULL STORY http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2010/08/05/baidus-robin-li/

If you are in China, you can not live without VPN if you want real internet since GFW (Great Firewall) of China blocked many many websites, including: blogger.com facebook.com youtube.com twitter.com.

Many smart chinese netizens would like to buy VPS, then build the VPN for themselves. Below is the list of good VPS suppliers.

In the morning of Aug.4 (GMT +8 Beijing Time), some china tweeps find they can visit facebook.com google answer and other websites which bocked by GFW   directly.

China tweeps  make a joke “GFW is on holiadys” . But not all China netizens can feel the change, almost half of them still can not access facebook.com after they tried.

As a chinese netizen, I am happy to say “GFW is on holidays” and hope the holidays will be longer and longer.

Below is the google anwer about ” Did you access facebook.com directly” which posted by Chinese netizen when they find it.

If you want to configure a VPN connection from a Windows XP client computer you only need what comes with the Operating System itself, it’s all built right in.

To set up a connection to a VPN, do the following:

1. On the computer that is running Windows XP, confirm that the connection to the Internet is correctly configured.

• You can try to browse the internet
• Ping a known host on the Internet, like yahoo.com, something that isn’t blocking ICMP [Read the rest of this entry...]

I am a Chinese twitter user and I launch a VPN plan to help Chinese netizen to enter into the real internet world.

We used donation to buy several VPS and our volunteer university technicans built VPN. Now we provide the VPN to Chinese Netizen(mostly twitter users) for free.

Of course we can provide free VPN to the students around the world who want to break through the firewall to enter into facebook and myspace. And we do hope you can give us some feedback about our VPN, so we can make it better. We can provide you both PPTP and OPENVPN. I plan to send out 20 free VPN in the first batch.

P.S:Due to the limit bandwidth,please don’t use free our VPN to do any P2P download.

If you have interest to try our free VPN, please follow me via http://twitter.com/@schoolproxies or email: richardzhang@wavesandbox.com Or you can comment here.

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Psiphon is the world’s leading freedom of choice software.. Originally developed by the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, in 2008 Psiphon was spun off as a Canadian corporation that continues to develop advanced censorship circumvention systems and technologies. Psiphon maintains its research and development lab and computer network “red team” at The Citizen Lab, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto.

Please visit http://psiphon.ca to know more, below is the  twitter accounts of Psiphon Team

• twitter
• twitter China
• twitter Iran
• twitter Kyrgyzstan
• twitter Uyghur

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