Banned in China
There have been a few stories about China on this blog - China and Google, China and Microsoft, Falun Gong - and it seems that they’ve noticed. China’s internet censoring technology, dubbed the Great Firewall of China, now blocks this site. You can test your own site at a “great firewall” test site. Are you as dangerous as a mongol horde?
Hat tip: Pacific Empire.
February 28th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
not banned in china..
March 1st, 2007 at 9:29 am
You need to try harder.
March 1st, 2007 at 4:23 pm
Oh, how mortifying…
You would think that after almost three years and about eight different contributors, someone would have said something…
Although for some of that time, blogspot was blocked in its entireity.
If scoop.co.nz hadn’t come up blocked I would have assumed the thing was broken.
March 1st, 2007 at 4:24 pm
I tried several websites. This one is banned in China. So is Kiwiblog. Apparently you don’t need to say much about china to have your website banned.
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:38 pm
Regret to say http://latitude45south.blogspot.com/ has full access through the Wall.
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March 7th, 2007 at 4:22 pm
Having finally got round to this…
Everyone who’s banned gets a badge:
http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0703/badgeflat160.jpg
Not that I’m sure I want to encourage getting banned by the Chinese Government as an end in itself - surely one wants The People to be able to read one’s Liberal and/or Democratic rantings - but it does seem like something to celebrate.
March 7th, 2007 at 4:42 pm
Also, I note the greatfirewall people have added a “this version 1.0 may report sites as being ‘blocked’, while there are only technical reasons for their unavailability. ” to there test page.
March 7th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
It’s also impossible to tell what’s blocked because China is third world country with crappy infrastructure and what’s blocked because China is a third world country with a crappy government because the Great Firewall variously reports censored sites as 404s, DNS errors, and timeouts.
I also suspect that much of the filtering is done on the fly, rather than by blacklist, which could be why some sites are sometimes reported as blocked and sometimes as available.