Marcia, I know that when we visited China three years ago, people were using VPNs. I have a friend who lived in China but has since relocated to Canada. If you like, I will ask him how he did it. Let me know. Shel Horowitz - "The Transformpreneur"(sm) ________________________________________________ Watch (and please share) my TEDx Talk, "Impossible is a Dare: Business for a Better World" *http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809 <http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809>** <http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809>* (move your mouse to "event videos") Contact me to bake in profitability while addressing hunger, poverty, war, and catastrophic climate change Twitter: @shelhorowitz * First business ever to be Green America Gold Certified * Inducted into the National Environmental Hall of Fame http://goingbeyondsustainability.com mailto:shel at greenandprofitable.com * 413-586-2388 Award-winning, best-selling author of 10 books. Latest: Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World (co-authored with Jay Conrad Levinson) _________________________________________________ On Sun, Jul 7, 2019 at 10:26 PM Chris Hoogendyk via Hidden-discuss < hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net> wrote: > I was in China for three weeks in March and April. I had a UMass owned > loaner laptop that had all > the standard UMass apps installed, including a vpn to UMass. Academics I > know at Sichuan University > also use vpn software to get out of China. I had the easy way out, but you > should research vpn > options and see what will work for you. > > > On 6/27/19 4:15 PM, Marcia Yudkin via Hidden-discuss wrote: > > Has anyone been to China recently? I've heard that Google, the New York > Times and the Washington Post are all blocked in China now. > > > > I'm going in the fall, and I really don't want to miss three whole weeks > of our national drama and be bewildered when I come home. > > > > Even if you don't know much about the Chinese firewall, can anyone think > of a reliable website for US news that is unlikely to be banned by the > Chinese Government? Maybe because it's small and obscure? > > > > I know there's something called a VPN that can sometimes get around the > restrictions, but I fear I'm not techie enough to install that on my phone > or laptop and troubleshoot it if it messes me up. > > > > Thanks for any tips. > > > > Marcia Yudkin > > www.yudkin.com > > Goshen > > _______________________________________________ > > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion > list. > > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members > > > -- > --------------- > > Chris Hoogendyk > > - > O__ ---- Systems Administrator > c/ /'_ --- Biology & Geosciences Departments > (*) \(*) -- 315 Morrill Science Center > ~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst > > <hoogendyk at bio.umass.edu> > > --------------- > > Erdös 4 > > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20190708/e1fb8d66/attachment.html>