HideMyAss has again added new servers to its network. The fourteen new servers hold 1244 IP addresses for HMA users. Among the servers is one in China, a new country for the HMA network. China censorship is tighter than ever, and HMA shares news of Chinese commentary on a Tiananmen incident.
New HMA Servers in Three Countries
HideMyAss announced last Friday that it has opened a total of fourteen new server locations worldwide. The first eleven servers are located in the United States. HMA users can now take advantage of the fast servers in Arizona and Wisconsin. The whopping nine new Phoenix, Arizona servers add 516, 240 and 60 new IP addresses, respectively, to the HMA arsenal. The two new Madison, Wisconsin servers provide HMA users with 248 IP addresses. There are also three new international servers, in Denmark and in China. The two new Denmark servers are in the Copenhagen location, making the total in the area to four servers. With these servers, HMA users have 120 new IP addresses at their disposal.
And finally, a new server in China was announced. This is a bold new move for HMA, and the HMA proudly welcomes China to their server family. The Guizhou, Guiyang server has 60 IP addresses at launch to serve clients in the country. All HideMyAss subscribers can connect to any of these fourteen servers through their server location lists.
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Citizens Comment on Tragic Tiananmen Crash
Last week, Tiananmen Square passersby witnessed a terrible car crash. A car ran right through the square, hitting a host of people that were there resting, chatting and passing through. The crash that ended in a fiery blaze killed five people. Tiananmen Square was filled with thick, black smoke and the blazing car stopped right below the portrait of Chairman Mao that hangs in the square. China tried to block all news and pictures of the incident. But a horde of netizens came forward to give their reports of the crash.
The interesting and encouraging part of the story is not that people commented about the blazing wreck, but that they did so openly on the web in spite of the country’s strict internet censorship. Many logged on to their internet censorship bypassing tools to add their reactions to the news of the tragic accident.
Most of the social network posts that included comments and photographs of the car crash were soon after blocked by Chinese censors. Nevertheless, HMA cheers on netizens in China as they continue to fight China’s censorship to speak out. Many bloggers simply switched to another platform to continue sharing images, videos and stories about the crash.
