[aklug] Re: Alaska peering

From: Royce Williams <royce@alaska.net>
Date: Tue Jun 08 2010 - 14:10:22 AKDT

Bruce Hill wrote, on 6/8/2010 1:53 PM:
> We live in China. Google's little political stunts don't fool anyone
> there. The Great Chinese Firewall blocks YouTube incoming. We can tunnel
> to a proxy in Virginia and bypass it easily enough. But then Google (owner
> of YouTube) checks your packets (must have flash and java for YouTube) and
> when they see the packets bound for China, they block it. So yes, Google,
> just like MSN and Yahoo, are evil liars to the core. What else is new?
> Just don't buy into their whining about China censorship.

I'm not a Google apologist, but is it widely known that Google is doing
this, and is it clear that it is happening deliberately (and not some
issue somewhere else?)

Royce
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