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Also, it appears that Tor public entry nodes are now blocked, and some of the bridges too. This means it is likely that Freenet opennet seednodes will be blocked soon too. See [[https://blog.torproject.org/blog/china-blocking-tor-round-two here]].
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Typically users buy a monthly card which allows them between 100 hours (in that month) at 512/128k, and 250 hours at 2048/256; the former seems to be the most common. Contract connections are very unusual although can be faster e.g. 2M/1M. This implies that darknet may have uptime problems, however peak internet time is 5PM-10PM, so uptime may not be a problem. Also China has only one timezone. Emule and torrent clients are widely used and often auto-start on startup, so Freenet's auto-start behaviour is familiar and probably not a big deal.
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The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_republic_of_china People's Republic of China]], everyone's favourite communist superpower, operates a major firewall known as the Great Firewall or the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Shield_Project Golden Shield]], which blocks political, religious, and pornographic sites. Its effectiveness varies dramatically from ISP to ISP and state to state, implying that ISPs run their own filtering as well as the state controlled blacklist, which is the result of ambiguous legislation creating a climate of fear and self-censorship, and in 2005 Freenet 0.5 had the honour of being blocked by Golden Shield (at the sesssion bytes level). Our website has of course been blocked for very many years.
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Typically users buy a monthly card which allows them between 100 hours (in that month) at 512/128k, and 250 hours at 2048/256. Contract connections are very unusual although can be faster e.g. 2M/1M. This implies that darknet may have uptime problems, however peak internet time is 5PM-10PM, so uptime may not be a problem. Also China has only one timezone. Emule and torrent clients are widely used and often auto-start on startup, so Freenet's auto-start behaviour is familiar and probably not a big deal.
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Typically users buy a monthly card which allows them between 100 hours (in that month) at 512/128k, and 250 hours at 2048/256. Contract connections are very unusual although can be faster e.g. 2M/1M. This implies that darknet may have uptime problems, however peak internet time is 5PM-10PM, so uptime may not be a problem. Also China has only one timezone.
it is likely that the times when people are online are fairly similar so it may not be a big problem.
it is likely that the times when people are online are fairly similar so it may not be a big problem.
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The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_republic_of_china People's Republic of China]], everyone's favourite communist superpower, operates a major firewall known as the Great Firewall or the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Shield_Project Golden Shield]], which blocks political, religious, and pornographic sites. Its effectiveness varies dramatically from ISP to ISP and state to state, implying that ISPs run their own filtering as well as the state controlled blacklist, which is the result of ambiguous legislation creating a climate of fear and self-censorship, and in 2005 Freenet 0.5 had the honour of being blocked by Golden Shield (at the sesssion bytes level).
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Typically users buy a monthly card which allows them between 100 hours (in that month) at 512/128k, and 250 hours at 2048/256. Contract connections are very unusual although can be faster e.g. 2M/1M. This implies that darknet may have uptime problems, however it is likely that the times when people are online are fairly similar so it may not be a big problem.
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==Chinese internet connectivity==
Typically users buy a monthly card which allows them between 100 hours (in that month) at 512/128k, and 250 hours at 2048/256. Contract connections are very unusual although can be faster e.g. 2M/1M.
Also, it appears that Tor public entry nodes are now blocked. This means it is likely that Freenet opennet seednodes will be blocked soon too.
Typically users buy a monthly card which allows them between 100 hours (in that month) at 512/128k, and 250 hours at 2048/256. Contract connections are very unusual although can be faster e.g. 2M/1M.
Also, it appears that Tor public entry nodes are now blocked. This means it is likely that Freenet opennet seednodes will be blocked soon too.
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The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China People's Republic of China]], everyone's favourite communist superpower, operates a major firewall known as the Great Firewall or the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Shield_Project Golden Shield]], which blocks political, religious, and pornographic sites. Its effectiveness varies dramatically from ISP to ISP and state to state, implying that ISPs run their own filtering as well as the state controlled blacklist, which is the result of ambiguous legislation creating a climate of fear and self-censorship, and in 2005 Freenet 0.5 had the honour of being blocked by Golden Shield (at the sesssion bytes level).
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The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China People's Republic of China]], everyone's favourite communist superpower, operates a major firewall known as the Great Firewall or the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Shield_Project Golden Shield]], which blocks political, religious, and pornographic sites. Its effectiveness varies dramatically from ISP to ISP and state to state, implying that ISPs run their own filtering as well as the state controlled blacklist, which is the result of ambiguous legislation creating a [[http://spaceweather.com/ climate]] of fear and self-censorship, and in 2005 Freenet 0.5 had the honour of being blocked by Golden Shield (at the sesssion bytes level).
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The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China People's Republic of China]], everyone's favourite communist superpower, operates a major firewall known as the Great Firewall or the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Shield_Project Golden Shield]], which blocks political, religious, and pornographic sites. Its effectiveness varies dramatically from ISP to ISP and state to state, implying that ISPs run their own filtering as well as the state controlled blacklist, which is the result of ambiguous legislation creating a climate of fear and self-censorship, and in 2005 Freenet 0.5 had the honour of being blocked by Golden Shield (at the sesssion bytes level).
