Looks like YouTube is now blocked in my hotel

in travel •  7 years ago 

Just got this notice from my hotel.. seems like they have received notice from the government to suspend VPN services..

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Guess I'll have to find another way .. luckily steem is still alive.

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Getting rid off all governments.... paradise!
take it light. It is a fun journey.

That's a scary note to read, the government decided what is accessible or not for something as mundane as YouTube...

When I see the control the Chinese Government uses on the internet; It makes me wonder what kind of controls governments could exert on cryptocurrency??

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Michael, behave while in China. Don't start a revolution, use mints to calm the YouTube withdrawal symptoms.
LBRY will solve this. Soon...

Hopefully!

Well, there's also View.ly that is another decentralized video platform.

lol great advice. :D

Wow thats crazy, the censorship in China is pretty insane.
Get the Cantenna out and jump onto the neighbours internet :P

seems like they are cracking down on VPNs recently. don't know why

Long way to go on the freedom of speech front over there :( This is why we need blockchain!

Good thing i follow you on steem then! :D
Wishing you a nice trip, cant wait to hear you reflect on the trip, and this specific experience.

@boxmining What about the steaming service "twitch"? When @zedomax was blocked from YouTube, the entire Advanced HODL Tech community followed him there seamlessly. Good luck and #effcensorship !!

It is a communist country after-all mate... what did you expect?

@boxmining You can post your videos here on Steemit using a service like Viewly. (sort of a decentralized YouTube)

I may have a solution for you. When I was in China some people helped me out with getting Google to work.

You should go to baidu search engine and search something like "hosts file 2017 july" or something like that. You have to replace your own hosts file with the one you'll download and you got Google and such for around a month before you need to download a new one in my experience.

I don't really remember the entire process of doing this, but you should be able to find a tutorial if you can read Chinese, unlike me :P

Boxmining for Chinese Government!

and your youtube channel is growing...love the content.

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I am confused, can you just install your own vpn like open-vpn, or proton vpn? Or do you have to use there computers only? no wifi?

Terrible. Your videos are some of the best and most consistent. Good luck ;-(

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@boxmining
Just be mindful of what's going to be discussing with bobby, we want you come back safe from CN. Peace

thanks! I'll try to see how to publish videos whilst I'm here.

Wow! That's not good :(

The logo on the sheet looks like the Steemit logo. Coincidence?

Coincidence!? I Think Not!

There's always Pornhub and Cheetos.com.

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Michael. I can get you connectivity outside the Firewall without the use of VPN. When I was in Beijing I threw up a beefy VM in Azure in our Hong Kong datacenter and from there I could get to whatever I wanted.

Please let me know if you'd like me to spin up a VM for you for like a week....free of charge and I'll provide you the login details.

Hey try https://upload.view.ly/ Its decentralized video sharing im not sure how you would get it back on youtube but hey its a work around for now

Try to download green VPN or super VPN on your phone.