Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-6433273-20171231161124/@comment-7882956-20180104175206

@ Uber - I have no snapshots to prove it, but basically any website that the Chinese government has no control over is blocked. I have a friend from China who can't use any of her Gmail and Facebook accounts when she's over there and I end up communicating with her through Chinese apps and sites. She can only use the blocked sites freely when she was in Canada for college, but now that she finished and moved back to China, she can't use any of it.

In addition, any of the Western Chinese who visits China to see the Vocaloid concerts had to jump proxies just to use twitter and anything else they could use freely in the country they live in. I personally communicate with a variety of people, but rarely have any native Chinese friends because there is rarely a time when I come across them in Western sites. Most of my friends who communicate are Chinese are Malaysian, Taiwanese, basically anyone who doesn't live in China (unless they're out of the country temporarily or permanently moved out). :/