Undoing changes to Terminal to access Facebook in Vietnam

Hello everyone,
I've been having some problems with my Mac ever since I visited Vietnam. Facebook is blocked their, and so I followed instructions found here: http://www.travelfish.org/blogs/saigon/2011/05/18/accessing-facebook-in-vietnam- for-mac/ to make it so my Mac could access FB again. It worked perfectly well during my stay, but when I left and flew to Thailand my computer comes up with an error and won't let me access Facebook. The following comes up:
Invalid URL
The requested URL "/", is invalid.
Reference #9.54e0fc7d.1337522864.1c5fab6
I'm not certain the changes I made to Terminal are the cause of my problem, but as I don't know much about the program and really can't think of any of reason why it wouldn't work, I was wondering if anyone could help me undo the changes to Terminal, or of they know the cause of this error walk me through how to get Facebook to work for me again. Thanks in advance for any help.

Hi! Can you share the wealth on how you reversed this? I am having the same exact problem. Followed some message boards on how to access Facebook in Vietnam, and now my laptop won't let me in Bali. Help! Thanks

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