Porn Star Inspires Chinese to Jump Great Firewall
Thousands of Chinese web users are said to be circumventing the country's "Great Firewall" just to see the tweets of a famous porn star.
AOL reports that Japanese porn star Aoi Sola launched her Twitter page at the end of March, but with Twitter being blocked in China, Sola's Chinese fans had no way of accessing the page. Determined to see her tweets, thousands of fans are said to be passing around software that allows people inside China the ability to get around the government-imposed restrictions.
AOL goes on to say that in a story in The Dongguan Times, the paper reported people were "jumping the wall" to show their support for their favorite porn star and said users "who needed a helping hand over the Great Firewall could get instructions by e-mailing mytwitterclient@gmail.com." An email to the address in question resulted in an automated response with detailed instructions on how to access Twitter from China and included links.
Though the reason these people are getting around the restrictions is a little bit silly, it just goes to show how ineffective the restrictions can be if people want the content badly enough.
"In China you can get anything you want on the Internet, you just have to want to bad enough," said David Wolf, a tech industry expert at Wolf Group Asia told AOL.
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How is it silly. Porn built the internet
Porn. Whacking a blow for freedong. dom, I meant freedom.
Awww she's so adoreable.... sigh
giggle
I would jump the great wall to see her too, I like Asians
Pornstars having fans? The use of the word fans really creeps me out for some reason... Don't really know why.
ROFL, China has now earned 69 cool points from me. Giggity.
Heh, brings back memories of me trying to connect to the Internet as a teenager, stuffing cotton in the modem speaker so it didn't wake up anyone, and all I wanted was video game news from IGN. John Denver said, "That which is denied becomes that which is most desired." He was even against the parental advisory label on music even though I doubt anything he ever had would have garnished such a label.
Helps me reaffirm my belief that prohibition cannot work as well as people think and turns what are probably descent citizens into criminals.
Wow, this news is a week something late.
I watch her p0rn ... err I mean ... movies before. honestly, she is really cute. oh well
How is it silly. Porn built the internet
I meant breaking the law to see a twitter page was silly.
a pathetic bunch of lifetime wankers above me...fans of these "stars" are all human trash. so is this site for non stop lame news.
a pathetic bunch of lifetime wankers above me...fans of these "stars" are all human trash. so is this site for non stop lame news.
Just because you are impotent, no need to hate on others.
checking her twitter ~~~ LOL
How is it silly. Porn built the internet
Al Gore did porn?
Porn....is there anything it can't do?
a pathetic bunch of lifetime wankers above me...fans of these "stars" are all human trash. so is this site for non stop lame news.
eunuck....nuff said
What? No embedded video?
I would jump the great wall to see her too, I like Asians
Good to know you like asians. Good luck getting one.
Anyway; this is true of all restrictions. People don't like boundries unless they're protecting them. Porn, if used when appropriate (ie; when not in a relationship, or not too excessively) is a good outlet for men. Countries that restrict porn are so damn repressed, the men act insane!
That Chinese firewall is hard to come over.Thankfully we have porn stars to give us a hand. Pun intended.
I like the girl you included.
My god if heaven had created a prettier pre-pubescent looking woman, I do not know!
Can she play Crysis?
POOORNN!!!
How is it silly. Porn built the internet
But I thought the Internet was built from a series of tubes?
But I thought the Internet was built from a series of tubes?
Ted Stevens misspoke, he meant pipes.
a pathetic bunch of lifetime wankers above me...fans of these "stars" are all human trash. so is this site for non stop lame news.
Then why are you on the site? If THG is full of trash, and you disapprove, go to highhorsehardwareguide.com?
a pathetic bunch of lifetime wankers above me...fans of these "stars" are all human trash. so is this site for non stop lame news.
cough, DICK HEAD, cough.
No sorry, I meant to say, *clears throat*
[ vocally ]DICK HEAD[ /vocally ]
a pathetic bunch of lifetime wankers above me...fans of these "stars" are all human trash. so is this site for non stop lame news.
sangonana. If I'm good at guessing the personality of online commentors, that's you writing "san, go and nana". ie; "3, 5 and 7" in Japanese. Which leads me to believe you're a Japanophile. This leads me to believe you're into Japanese women. Which leads to a contradiction, since this woman is obviously an attractive Japanese woman.
This would thus lead to my conclusion that you're, for some reason, annoyed that there is a bunch of 'not Japanese enough' men ooglinh this Japanese woman. Which is typical of a Japanophile; thinking they're 'more Japanese' than the rest of the single, socially awkward, shut-in, Japanophiles.
If I'm wrong, just say. I won't believe you, but just say anyway.
oogling* Does Tom's Guide have an edit yet?
(For those who don't know what 'oogling' means, it's a term for staring at someone you find attractive).
Heh, brings back memories of me trying to connect to the Internet as a teenager, stuffing cotton in the modem speaker so it didn't wake up anyone
dude.. atm0 - Disable speaker
A few years from now...
A little Chinese boy asks his father, "Dad, why is China a Democratic society, instead of a Communist dictatorship?"
The father replies, "Well, son, a long time ago there was this social networking thing called Twitter, and a beautiful Japanese girl named Aoi Sola who liked to make special movies about people hugging..."