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YouTube unbanned in China, or so I thought.

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XiGua
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Sweden3085 Posts
August 08 2011 07:53 GMT
#1
Hey guys, I am in China for the summer break and have been here for almost 4 weeks now. What I really miss is the YouTube videos and being able to watch all those parody SC2 music videos.
Well today...

I was browsing Teamliquid and clicked on this thread: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=152330
What caught my attention was that I saw the three videos embed from Youtube. I didn't put much thought into it put I clicked the Youtube video and suddenly it started to play! I was so thrilled that I immediately opened up a new tab and typed in "Youtube.com".
This is what I got:
[image loading]

My mind was blown away. I erased my previous google search and started to type in "Youtube unbanned in China". I saw an old TL thread pop up but apparently it was a false alarm and several months ago. I thought I was one of the first to discover that Youtube was finally unbanned and started to create a new topic on the General forums to get some e-fame, what? I am a hipster when it's about YouTube.

In that thread I wanted to have the picture of this thread "http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=152330" in it so I could show everyone how I saw the three videos. But I had closed that tab. So I started looking for it again...

When I found it I almost cried, I could not see the videos. I typed in YouTube.com in the adress bar and the same error that I hate to see came up. YouTube wasn't unbanned... I was just lucky to have fallen through The Great Firewall of China by accident. But after I climbed back to tell people the news, I couldn't get back in. I was crushed, so I made this blog! :/

Atleast TL isn't banned in China. Just looking on the bright side.

XiGua

*****
ლ(ಠ益ಠლ) APM, Why u make me spam?
EtherealDeath
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States8366 Posts
August 08 2011 07:58 GMT
#2
T_T p.s. your name is delicious.
MisterD
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Germany1338 Posts
August 08 2011 07:59 GMT
#3
why can't i shake the feeling that you only posted this to earn bonus with hot_bid? :D
Gold isn't everything in life... you need wood, too!
Gummy
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States2180 Posts
August 08 2011 07:59 GMT
#4
On August 08 2011 16:58 EtherealDeath wrote:
T_T p.s. your name is delicious.

For those of you who don't know (since xigua is not sufficiently unambiguous for most translators to make a good guess), xigua means watermelon.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ There are three kinds of people in the world: those who can count and those who can't.
Primadog
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States4411 Posts
August 08 2011 08:00 GMT
#5
If only Justin.tv, owned3d, and youtube are viewable without "wall-leaping", we'd be a little closer to each other.
Thank God and gunrun.
XiGua
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Sweden3085 Posts
August 08 2011 08:04 GMT
#6
On August 08 2011 17:00 Primadog wrote:
If only Justin.tv, owned3d, and youtube are viewable without "wall-leaping", we'd be a little closer to each other.

Actually, own3d.tv is not banned.

Blizzard EU Invitational thanks for choosing that stream!
ლ(ಠ益ಠლ) APM, Why u make me spam?
EtherealDeath
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States8366 Posts
August 08 2011 08:13 GMT
#7
On August 08 2011 16:59 Gummy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 08 2011 16:58 EtherealDeath wrote:
T_T p.s. your name is delicious.

For those of you who don't know (since xigua is not sufficiently unambiguous for most translators to make a good guess), xigua means watermelon.


To the Contrary

Itachii
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Poland12466 Posts
August 08 2011 08:16 GMT
#8
On August 08 2011 17:13 EtherealDeath wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 08 2011 16:59 Gummy wrote:
On August 08 2011 16:58 EtherealDeath wrote:
T_T p.s. your name is delicious.

For those of you who don't know (since xigua is not sufficiently unambiguous for most translators to make a good guess), xigua means watermelon.


To the Contrary


http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/xīguā
La parole nous a été donnée pour déguiser notre pensée
saltywet
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Hong Kong1316 Posts
August 08 2011 08:21 GMT
#9
yeah when i saw that thread a few weeks ago i cried tears of joy, 2 weeks ago when i got to china i was in grief that i couldn't access so many websites
Gummy
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States2180 Posts
August 08 2011 08:24 GMT
#10
On August 08 2011 17:16 Itachii wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 08 2011 17:13 EtherealDeath wrote:
On August 08 2011 16:59 Gummy wrote:
On August 08 2011 16:58 EtherealDeath wrote:
T_T p.s. your name is delicious.

For those of you who don't know (since xigua is not sufficiently unambiguous for most translators to make a good guess), xigua means watermelon.


To the Contrary


http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/xīguā

http://translate.google.com/#zh-CN|en|xigua
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ There are three kinds of people in the world: those who can count and those who can't.
Z3kk
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
4099 Posts
August 08 2011 08:25 GMT
#11
Er, is it not watermelon then o_o

My parents and everyone I know uses it as watermelon >.>
Failure is not falling down over and over again. Failure is refusing to get back up.
XiGua
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Sweden3085 Posts
August 08 2011 08:29 GMT
#12
On August 08 2011 17:25 Z3kk wrote:
Er, is it not watermelon then o_o

My parents and everyone I know uses it as watermelon >.>

It is watermelon. Delicious, watery watermelon.
ლ(ಠ益ಠლ) APM, Why u make me spam?
endy
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Switzerland8970 Posts
August 08 2011 08:43 GMT
#13
On August 08 2011 17:25 Z3kk wrote:
Er, is it not watermelon then o_o

My parents and everyone I know uses it as watermelon >.>


I don't understand. xigua is watermelon o_o
ॐ
Iplaythings
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Denmark9110 Posts
August 08 2011 09:24 GMT
#14
From Chineese cencory to... Watermelons? God offtopic can be wonderfully random..

Atleast watermelons are awesome ;>
In the woods, there lurks..
Mobius_1
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United Kingdom2763 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-08 09:37:17
August 08 2011 09:34 GMT
#15
I almost jumped when I saw the first part of the name of the thread since it was truncated in the sidebar.

Now I'm gonna be scarred for life by the false alarm and never eat a watermelon again. T.T

EDIT: I couldn't access TL for the whole of yesterday, whether due to Blizzard Downloader sucking up bandwidth (TW Client FTW) or something up with crappy internet, but I was scared out of my mind that Greatwall blocked TL. That would really suck.
Starleague Forever. RIP KT Violet~
Loanshark
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
China3094 Posts
August 08 2011 09:52 GMT
#16
Yup every so often I actually manage to get onto Youtube here. Next minute, it's blocked again.

At least Wikimedia was unblocked recently.
No dough, no go. And no mercy.
EtherealDeath
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States8366 Posts
August 08 2011 09:56 GMT
#17
When I said to the contrary I meant that Google agrees xigua is sufficient in itself to render a translation =).
]343[
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States10328 Posts
August 08 2011 10:53 GMT
#18
hi I like xigua too. just saying.

also hmm I suppose I can use tunneling (woooo PuTTY :D) when I go to China...

+ Show Spoiler [@EtherealDeath] +
that's how I used to get past internet cutoff tunneling through a little asian man's server at duke...
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EtherealDeath
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States8366 Posts
August 08 2011 11:48 GMT
#19
On August 08 2011 19:53 ]343[ wrote:
hi I like xigua too. just saying.

also hmm I suppose I can use tunneling (woooo PuTTY :D) when I go to China...

+ Show Spoiler [@EtherealDeath] +
that's how I used to get past internet cutoff tunneling through a little asian man's server at duke...


LOL SIYANG'S?

Yea VPN works, I did it this summer in China lol.
Empyrean
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
16976 Posts
August 08 2011 12:13 GMT
#20
Seriously, none of you have Freegate?
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