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Fool's Mountain pointed out how the Chinese propaganda machine has successfully played tricks on foreign media in reporting the censoring of Obama's Q & A session with Shanghai youth.
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Transcript and news reporting on Obama’s speech and townhall meeting, including the supposed censored GFW question, seems to be readily available in China. Here are some Baidu search results to the fact:
http://www.baidu.com/s?wd=%B0%C2%B0%CD%C2%ED+%D0%C5%CF%A2+%C1%F7%CD%A8+%B7%C0%BB%F0%C7%BD+twitter (search keywords “Obama information flow firewall twitter”)
http://www.baidu.com/s?wd=%B0%C2%B0%CD%C2%ED%C9%CF%BA%A3%D1%DD%BD%B2 (keywords “Obama Shanghai speech”)