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Experience The Chinese Internet Without Leaving Home

Gearing up for a trip to post-Olympics China? Get a taste of the internet filtering you'll be experiencing with the China Channel Firefox Add-on.

The browser plug-in sets you up with an IP address on a proxy server in China, meaning that while you're surfing from Omaha, the websites you're trying to load think you're coming at them from, say, Guangzhou. An attempt to connect to pages on unsavory subjects will interrupt your connection for 15 minutes or so--though you can use the extension to immediately reconnect through another proxy.

The plug-in was created by a small group of edgy internet geeks-slash-artists hoping to spread the word about the ongoing web censorship in China. Among them? TSA antagonist Evan Roth.

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