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Aoi Sola Was The One Who Inspires Chinese To Leap The Great Firewall

Posted July 6th, 2010 by admin

Aoi Sola is a Japanese porn star who lives an independent lifestyle. Millions of people that are in China lead lives with significantly less political self-determination or freedom, and many found a way to jump around the Great Firewall so they can do what any freedom-loving person in that same situation would do: visit Aoi Sola’s Twitter page. AOL News reports that as tweeting birds greet the first vertical rays of the sun, Chinese netizens have greeted the dawning concept of online freedom in China with an instruction manual. They’re helping each other learn how to use proxy servers and virtual private networks so they can follow Aoi Sola. It’s a song of the human spirit, no? The most obvious question now is “Who will play Sola in the Chinese after-school special?” and will payday loans be needed to finance such a film?

What does Aoi Sola have to do with the Great Firewall and what is it?

The Great Firewall that so many Aoi Sola fans gotten around is essentially the Chinese government’s collective efforts to censor online content within the country, particularly that which is critical of the government or brings human rights violations out. Websites like www.greatfirewallofchina.org show which IPs are blocked in the Communist nation. Twitter is one of the major sites that is blocked by China, so fans in China of Aoi Sola took action when she started Tweeting. Thus, they began to distribute software and instructions to show each other how to use a proxy server and create a virtual private network (VPN). This flood of traffic made Aoi Sola to wonder, “What sparked so much discussion about me by Chinese people? What happened? Please tell me.” reports the Dongguan Times.

Oh, that Aoi Sola, what a teaser

Americans know very well how celebrities use Twitter to flame their popularity, but this is all very new to China. Josephine Ho from the Center for the Study of Sexualities at Taiwan’s National Central University said to Dongguan that the intense interest in Aoi Sola by Chinese fans was a backlash against sexual controls instituted by China’s government. She is basically saying you can’t keep someone on the farm forever, or they’ll boil over. Japanese porn is plentiful and wildly liberal, and the newness of it appeals to Chinese people who are curious. There are wild attempts to jump the Great Firewall as we can see when entering Aoi Sola. Trampolines will never cut it, even if you go to money lenders to afford the biggest on ever.

And what does Aoi Sola have to tweet?

Not much different than your average American celebrity is an accurate answer. Aoi Sola has more than 54,000 followers, and all of them are enjoying such profound tweets as “Listen!! I bought [an] i pad !! yeah! yeah!” Ever the savvy marketer, Sola tweets in both English and Japanese, according to AOL News. On her blog (NSFW), Aoi Sola writes that she’s working on learning Chinese, but it’s really hard to pick up.

Sources for the article:

http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/porn-star-aoi-sola-prompts-chinese-to-jump-great-firewall/19448320

http://personalmoneystore.com/moneyblog/2010/03/15/google-in-china-google-net-neutrality/

http://twitter.com/aoi_sola

http://sex.ncu.edu.tw/english/EnglishCenterIntroduction.htm

http://www.aoisola.cocolog-nifty.com/

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