Smuggled Kindle 3Gs Help Chinese Consumers Bypass Firewall

Amazon may not have distribution in China, but Kindles are still making their way to the country through black market channels. These Kindle 3Gs are giving Chinese consumers full access to sites such as Facebook and Twitter, which are usually censored in mainland China by the “Great Firewall.”

Breitbart reports: “Amazon’s Kindle 3G e-reader is being snapped up on China’s grey market as it has an extra special advantage for customers — it automatically leaps the so-called “Great Firewall” of state web censorship.”

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