From Ashley

Blog 5

I always just feel out of the American pop culture loop in China. This
is partially due to Rolling Stone, Mtv, etc being blocked here.
Typically however I accept it at face value and am not bothered by the
censorship. However, right now, I’m quite annoyed.

I downloaded skype…in which it takes forever to find the Mac version
on the Chinese site. Then, so I finally get it, and it’s in another
language. Logically, Chinese would make sense, or even English, but
no, it’s in French. This wouldn’t be that big of an issue, if it’d
let me change it to English, but the way you apparently change
language does not exist on this version! I even uninstalled and
reinstalled for the same thing to happen.
How does censorship relate…if youtube was not banned, I could easily
watch any of the like 5 videos explaining how to change it (that is
also assuming the government decided to not mess with the internet for
the hell of it and the internet actually worked). But no, this is not
an option. I’m currently Google translating the Chinese skype site
into English, to try to figure out how to change it from French. And
the help page is in French, so I’m Google translating from French to
English.

“Est-ce que je peux utiliser Skype dans ma langue ?
Oui. Nous travaillons d'arrache pied à traduire Skype dans autant de
langues que possible. Vous pouvez changer la langue de Skype en
sélectionnant Outils > Changer de langue”

Clearly, if I could find outils, it looks like there shouldn’t be a
problem. However there is no tools option. It would also be nice, if
skype.com didn’t redirect me to Chinese only. Oh the irony. It looks
like it’s going to stay in French.