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by vorg 5984 days ago
Speaking as another globalized ex-IT worker teaching English in China...

There were 2 points raised by Google...

(1) requiring google.cn results to be censored. This doesn't affect me, I just use google.com

(2) increased censorship over the past year, e.g. blocked sites, including blogger and all blogspot pages, all google groups subpages, and of course youtube.

This affects me!

Using proxies on blogspot doesn't help because the firewall detects the actual html content. Free vpn connect addresses are also very quickly blocked.

Google services seem to have been singled out here. Just seems like domestic industry protection.