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21 Apr 2010 11:10

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Offbeat: China’s willing to leap over the Great Firewall for Japanese porn stars

  • What sparked so much discussion about me by Chinese people? What happened? Please tell me.
  • Japanese porn star Aoi Sola • On her newfound popularity on Twitter with the mainland Chinese. After her fans found out she was on the site, they freaked out and found ways around the “Great Firewall” that China uses to block certain speech-allowing sites. “In China you can get anything you want on the Internet, you just have to want to bad enough,” said China-based tech industry analyst David Wolf. So, on the scale from Tiananmen Square to Japanese porn stars, Japanese porn stars win. source