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Re: China blocks Bitcointalk - what will the results be on the alternate section?
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scv00
on 22/09/2014, 16:01:42 UTC
What's with this reddit guy saying he can access in shanghai free trade zone? he says other things he still can't access, but btctalk is ok! strange, or maybe my knowledge on how china ban works is not so good...

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2h0nyr/bitcointalkorg_now_blocked_in_china/
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There are no internet restrictions in the Shanghai free trade zone, that's what I heard when it just opened a year ago.

This article confirms what you heard and explains why Shanghai Bitcoin Conference attendees still see Bitcointalk.org

http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/great-firewall-of-china-blocks-bitcointalk-org/

Quoting from it

The comment with the most upvotes, by far, in response to /u/theymos’s post on the Bitcoin subreddit seems to contradict the claim that the famous Bitcoin Forum has now been explicitly blocked by the infamous Great Firewall of China. However, this is not the case.The Shanghai Bitcoin Conference currently being held at the Lake Meilan International Convention Center provided censorship-free internet service to conference attendees via a proxy.

The Chinese government decided to allow this gap in their wall “in order to welcome foreign companies to invest and to let foreigners live and work happily in the free-trade zone, we must think about how we can make them feel like at home.”