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Is it just us, or does it seem like China's just blocking websites for fun now? Just when we thought that the National Day security crackdown had passed us by without (much) damage, we wake up today to find our favorite video sharing website that isn't blocked in China, Vimeo, is now...blocked. O, China, how will we find viral videos that aren't on Youku or Tudou now? At least you've got some good options for leaping over the GFW. more ›

Remember that whole weird internal fight that unfortunately brought down our new favorite VPN? It seems that enough has passed (aka lawsuits have been filed) for Freedur to launch version 2.0 of his product, now available for download on Freedur.net. more ›

Chris Mathews responded to Obrad Grujic and Frank Kim accusations that he was "an evil and greedy person" who had stolen the site from him by posting a press release onto the Freedur website. He's only been able to get hold of some DNSes - meaning that for us in China - if you load Freedur.com using a VPN, you get his side of the story, but if you turn off the VPN, you get Obrad Grujic and Frank Kim's rebuttal. Weird. Shows us how little we know about the workings of the internet, we guess. more ›

UPDATE (03/2010): Since the publishing of this post, several things have happened, so if you came across this article from somewhere else, check out all our freedur coverage to find the most recent info. more ›

While some of our readers are lucky enough to live in far off lands of fast internet and access to that thing called YouTube, the many of us here in China are stuck behind the ever-present and always annoying Great Firewall. So how do we at Shanghaiist still have access to our favorite timewasters websites like Facebook and Twitter? Does it have something to do with our obvious awesomeness? Well, yes and no. more ›

With China "commemorat[ing] something that never happened with prolonged online moment of silence," as someone cleverly put it, now's a good time to get stocked up on as much Great Firewall scaling advice as possible. Just a few weeks ago, we detailed some ways to climb up outta heah for free. more ›