Aoi Sola Inspires Many Chinese To Leap The Great Firewall
Aoi Sola is a popular Japanese porn star who lives an independent lifestyle. Millions of people in China lead lives with significantly less political self-determination or freedom, and many have found a way to jump the Great Firewall so they can do what any freedom-loving person in their 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. Isn’t it a song of human spirit? The most obvious question now is “Who will play Sola in the Chinese after-school special?” and will payday loans be necessary to finance such a landmark 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 have done the end-around with 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 to light. Websites like www.greatfirewallofchina.org show which IPs are blocked in the Communist nation. One of the major sites blocked in China is Twitter, so Chinese fans of Aoi Sola took action as Sola began tweeting. They then distributed software and instructions that showed one another how to create virtual private networks (VPN) and how to use proxy servers. The flood of traffic prompted Aoi Sola to wonder, “What sparked so much discussion about me by Chinese people? What happened? Please tell me.” reports the Dongguan Times.
Aoi Sola is such a teaser
Americans are well aware of how celebrities use Twitter to fan the flames of their popularity, but such folly is quite new to China. Josephine Ho of the Center for the Study of Sexualities at Taiwan’s National Central University speculated to Dongguan that the intense interest in Aoi Sola by Chinese fans was a backlash against tight 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. There is a lot of Japanese porn and it is wildly liberal, and the newness of it appeals to the Chinese 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 so what does Aoi Sola tweet then?
Not much different than your average American celebrity is an accurate answer. Aoi Sola’s 54,000 followers are all enjoying such profound tweets as “Listen!! I bought [an] i pad !! yeah! yeah!” Aoi Sola has more than 54,000 followers, they all get to enjoy such profound tweets as “Listen!! I bought [an] i pad !! yeah! yeah!” Ever the savvy marketer, Sola tweets in Japanese and English, 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/