Censorship

Movies and the internet are two of the most noticeably censored things here.

Movies are chopped up a bit, and at seemingly random places: there's no consistency about which vulgarities, language, etc ... are inappropriate. For example, in the movie Get Smart, the only scene that's cut is the end when Steve Carell exposes himself.

Social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Blogger - yes, the very site you're reading - are BLOCKED. The only way to access them are through VPNs and other proxies/tunnels that most people in the US can't or don't know how to access, so I imagine the situation is similar in China.

I have to go through the GE VPN just to post this story ... very annoying for us, but imagine living your whole life this way!