Originally Posted by
Chinatrvl
If you care so much about monitoring and possible repercussions, better not just avoid tom.skype, but also generally avoid phone calls in china - that is naive.
Googling (why do you need google at all?) or researching sensitive topics when in the country - that is simply stupid.
If one news site doesn't work another does - that has been the way for the last decade now. Newssites, I have not once had a problem with pressdisplay.
Maybe my internet usage doesn't contain enough porn or pro-tibet progaganda... Seriously, limitations are minuscule in privat and business life, regardless how 'concerning' some anecdotes sound.
Well, bully for you. If you are happy with how you and your communications are working, fine. If you have experienced no troubles yourself, fine. But you don't have the right to pooh-pooh others of us who have different experiences and perhaps different needs. For some of us, limitations range from occasionally annoying to regularly problematic. To come out publicly on a forum with the position that the China internet access world is Fine and Dandy, is pretty appalling.
Your crack about "porn or pro-tibet progaganda (sic)" isn't funny.