Quote from: myrkul on August 31, 2012, 09:26:16 AM

Quote from: jl2012 on August 31, 2012, 09:07:13 AM

Quote from: myrkul on August 31, 2012, 08:52:45 AM

Quote from: jl2012 on August 31, 2012, 08:39:04 AM

Not solved, because you are just promoting it to a wrong target group:99.99% of Chinese bitcoin users with good English ability know Internet circumvention. The potential harm outweighs the benefit.

OK, and would you say that's a large portion of current Chinese (中國) Bitcoin users, or a small percentage?

I don't know, and that is irrelevant to our discussion. If you post in English, your target population is restricted to those who read English. In China, only well-educated people use English and they should know every method to fight with the wall.

Excellent point.

So we have a bit of an impasse, here. On one hand, we know it's inevitable that eventually, this site will no longer be available to the general public in China. On the other, we would like to set that date as far as possible. I have never been to China myself, but I understand from people who have that it is trivial, and the knowledge of how is widespread, to bypass the wall. Certainly, you say, at least as widespread as that of the English language.

I must confess ignorance of exactly what the tool does. I assume it is something to make the use of Bitcoin through the wall a bit easier?

Would it not be best, then, to post the actual thread in the Products section, in English, and then link to it using something like this, in one's signature: Bitcoiner在中国呢？阅读本！ (apologies if my translation is poor, I verified it by sending it back through the other way, but Google Translate is not perfect)

'Bitcoiner在中国呢？阅读本!' means :'(What about) Bitcoiners in China? (roughly) Reading books! . The second sentence is actually mangled by Google Translate, and does not constitute a sentence nor contain any meaning. The first sentence is literally a 'hanging sentence' if it were in English. Google translate fails badly for short sentences as it does not understand the context. Tongue

The tool is a proxy client that encrypts all communication to TOR-like levels before being relayed to the proxy servers. It's used to jump across the Great Firew@ll and enable the China-based users browse censored sites. (and believe me, that list is long.)

3kP0mR, the better way would be setting up a site that teaches how to pass the censors, and linking to it with a vague hint at the forums. Giving the instructions directly here would lead to the forums being banned, and possibly hasten the complete blanket ban of any Bitcoin related sites in China. I'm still not too sure to approach this issue though - maybe more feedback from China based users like HorseRider would help in this case.