The internet here in China has some unique challenges. The Chinese government likes to block sites. The official reason is to block sites that have a direct Chinese counterpart so as to encourage Chinese websites, for example, Twitter is blocked because China has Weibo, Youtube is blocked because China has Yokou. The real reason they do this, in most peoples estimation is to control things, if something offensive to the Communist regime is posted on Weibo, it gets deleted, if a video of Tibetans lighting themselves on fire in protest for the occupation and ethnic cleansing is posted on Yokou then it gets deleted.
The easiest way around the Great firewall of China is to get a VPN or Virtual Private Network. A VPN essentially tricks the internet into thinking you are somewhere else. Forgive me if I don't know the technical stuff behind a VPN all i know is it works. You have a couple options when it comes to choosing one, the main differences are price and effectiveness.
So you have some free ones, but they are super unreliable. The only ones I have personally used are ninjacloak.com and Hotspotshield. Both of these are very slow and very spotty, but they are free.
The other option you have is to pay for it, and they aren't cheap. The positive side is that these work very very well. The site I use is call strongvpn.com they offer a few packages but the basic one is $21 every three months. I have the most basic package on my computer and its fast enough and good enough that I can stream Netflix, or Youtube, use Facebook and Blogger.
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