{"id":4414,"date":"2010-04-14T07:05:23","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T11:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4414"},"modified":"2010-04-14T07:05:23","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T11:05:23","slug":"f1-people-dodging-twitter-ban-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/f1-people-dodging-twitter-ban-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 people dodging Twitter ban in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">F1&#8217;s new obsession with Twitter might have to take a backseat role in China this weekend.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Particularly over the pre-season period, many F1 figures &#8211; including drivers, bosses, team PR departments, media members and insiders &#8211; tapped into the power and popularity of the growing microblogging phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>But the Chinese government has banned and blocked many forms of social media on the internet, extending to Twitter in late 2009.<\/p>\n<p>However, it seems there are ways to dodge China&#8217;s Twitter ban.\u00a0 Having expressing dismay at the ban, HRT driver Karun Chandhok was greeted at Shanghai airport this week by three &#8220;very sweet fans&#8221; who told him the tricks.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Wednesday, McLaren, Mike Gascoyne, Mark Webber, Heikki Kovalainen and several journalists have been Tweeting from Shanghai.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear if or how China&#8217;s estimated 30,000 internet police will react to the violations of the internet censorship laws.<\/p>\n<p>The operator of Virgin&#8217;s official Twitter account said: &#8220;We&#8217;ll probably just go low-key for China (in 2010) and then look at a proper solution for next year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F1&#8217;s new obsession with Twitter might have to take a backseat role in China this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[1275,1332,1270,1221,5262,5261,5340,1239,5368,1193,1331],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4415,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4414\/revisions\/4415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}