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For some reason, I do not find this amusing (h/t Shanghaiist):
For all of you outside of China right now who have no idea what the internet is like over here and are curious enough to meet the Net Nanny face to face, here comes the ultimate Firefox extension for you, the China Channel Firefox Add-on. Here’s the description of the add-on:
Experience the censored Chinese internet at home!The Firefox add-on China Channel offers internet users outside of China the ability to surf the web as if they were inside mainland China.
Just in time for Halloween, geeks outside China can stay at home and frighten themselves pretending this tool simulates the internet of the future. The only actual use I can think of for it is helping mp3.baidu.com reach a global audience.
Well, aside from putting fear into the imaginative, I would add that it seems to have comforted a number of bloggers who are committed to the idea of doing something about internet censorship.