Let me guess what has happened here. The Chinese government has put pressure on Opera to close down that free access. And like most companies, they complied.
And they betrayed not only their Chinese users, but also themselves. Yeah, yeah, Opera, making the Web better, a friend of its users. Plain bullshit, as we can see now.
And you don't even dare to admit it? No press release, no posting in a blog about that you are now blocking usage of the international version to your Chinese usage.
And the worst thing: you even pretend that this is a good thing! You dare to say that this was done for "better browsing experience". Bah, disgusting.
Opera guys, if you were up to your image, then you would first of all inform you users about what has happened. You would inform you users that their data is now accessible to the Chinese government (I'm guessing that this is now the case --- and it makes me wonder what other agencies can access Opera data). Of course you cannot tear down the firewall. My guess is if you hadn't complied than your proxies would have been blocked in China. Well, it was your choice to comply to censorship. But the worst part is that you don't even inform your users.
Update: I'm rather certain that Opera is gagged. But you know, there are sites like Wikileaks. And someone has to speak up, it has gone to far.
Thanks to xlight and mranti for pointing me at this.
