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Hong Kong: Watch what you say in China because other people are definitely watching what you say

September 16, 2013 Jim 1 Comment

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Call me crazy, but I thought we could walk into Tiananmen Square and recreate the photo of the lone Chinese man standing in front of the tanks. No tanks, of course, but I thought it would be fun to have a photo of myself assuming the man’s famous pose.

Unfortunately, you can’t do anything “lone” in China because there are 1.3 billion Chinese and maybe even more tourists. And a goodly percentage of them can be found in Tiananmen Square at any given moment.

Another thing you can’t do in China is perform a Google search. The Chinese government is still a Communist dictatorship and they censor the internet. I was unable to access Google to search for that famous photo until we got here to Hong Kong.

I thought I could get around the Chinese censors by sending my friend Ray a cryptic email asking him to “Use that popular search engine to find the famous photo of the lone guy standing in the famous square and send it back to me”. He sent me the photo, but I was unable to open it.

There are lots of other sites I was also unable to access in China. CafePress, which hosts my T-shirt business, was unavailable. YouTube, which I think is owned by Google, was unavailable. A bunch of other American news sites were unavailable.

Thank god for the First Amendment. As long as it lasts.

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  1. Ray says

    September 16, 2013 at 10:26 pm

    If we’re not careful, it’s how the NSA will look in a few years.

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