China Tightens Censorship of Electronic Communications

[Monoriu]

I'm due to be in China next week. Would I be able to follow events in Egypt while I'm there?

If you stay in a large hotel, they'll have uncensored access to CNN, BBC etc. 

You'll also have access to languish, i.e. the timmay RSS feed 

Otherwise, no.  Pretty much all "western" news sites will be blocked.  I speak from first hand experience. 

[KRonn]

I'm due to be in China next week. Would I be able to follow events in Egypt while I'm there?

If you stay in a large hotel, they'll have uncensored access to CNN, BBC etc. 

You'll also have access to languish, i.e. the timmay RSS feed 

Otherwise, no.  Pretty much all "western" news sites will be blocked.  I speak from first hand experience.

No foreign scribes allowed, eh?   

[Monoriu]

A sidenote.  I can access languish from anywhere in China.  Except Guangzhou.  When I tried to log on, I got a message that said something to the effect of "fuck off you spammer".  The actual wording was more...colourful

[KRonn]

A sidenote.  I can access languish from anywhere in China.  Except Guangzhou.  When I tried to log on, I got a message that said something to the effect of "fuck off you spammer".  The actual wording was more...colourful

Sounds like a mod, CDM responding.   

[Josquius]

The Shakespeare story is both funny and worrying.
So there's some sort of automated system that recognises the word protest in English and Chinese and cuts off calls?

This is worrying stuff when you consider it is also combined with Weiwei's arrest. People thought China would reform for the better eventually,its going the other way.

A sidenote.  I can access languish from anywhere in China.  Except Guangzhou.  When I tried to log on, I got a message that said something to the effect of "fuck off you spammer".  The actual wording was more...colourful

You know languish is dead when the Chinese don't think we're in any way subversive.

[Camerus]

Pretty much all "western" news sites will be blocked.  I speak from first hand experience.

Not a single western news website was blocked when I was in China between 2008 - June 2010, apart from Facebook and Youtube (which are not really traditional news sites, either).   

[Jacob]

I'm due to be in China next week. Would I be able to follow events in Egypt while I'm there?

Where are you going in China?

[Warspite]

I'm due to be in China next week. Would I be able to follow events in Egypt while I'm there?

Where are you going in China?

I lied. I just wanted to keep the "Can I read about Egypt" thing going.