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China Internet Censorship Goes Crazy

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Are they going crazy? Before they would warn and order the webmasters to delete “harmful” information from their websites, sometimes they just blocked the website. But now thousand of websites would be blocked if they are so unlucky to be hosted by the same IDC company with a “harmful” website.

Yes, in the last month, most of the interactive website(including forum, guestbook, blog) in China were blocked by the Chinese authorities. Some believe this is because of the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China opening, the Chinese authorities want a social stability. 

Chinese authorities often blocks an entire Web site, even if only parts of the site contain sensitive information. Just in the last month, more than thousand of dedicated server in HeNan TeleCom room and ShanTou TeleCom room were closed forcibly. thousand of sites were blocked included those on health, education, news, entertainment, religion. Also they use the Greate FireWall to blocks some great website like FeedBurner and Flickr.

This month, the Chinese authorities will finish their jobs, closing the rest of “illegal website”. So when the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is opening, the Chinese cyberspace will become a very harmonious and stable.

Not a country renowned for freedom of speech, China has nevertheless outdone itself with more internet censorship that would make them proud.

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29 Responses to “China Internet Censorship Goes Crazy”

  1. zhangxupage on September 2nd, 2007 11:12 am

    Did they got crazy?

    Should be:

    Did they get crazy?

  2. Crazy on September 2nd, 2007 12:34 pm

    No, they are not recently going crazy. They have been shamelessly crazy all the time.

  3. Moses on September 2nd, 2007 11:15 pm

    Chinese people should do something to stop these crazy things now.

  4. Meson on September 3rd, 2007 12:43 am

    @Moses, how can I do to keep the political dignitaries sane? And are anything we could do to stop them from being insane? Definitely NOT, what’s happing is just how the political might overrides anything in China, in a brutal and tragic way. I don’t know what bestows them with the power to uproot anything they don’t like. It’s modern world, we’re living as if we were back in the old tyrannies, like KuoMintang era, Qing dynasty or even earlier time. And now we ARE enslaved by what’s going on shamelessly in China. Shame on you: Chinese politics and the egomaniac governing party.

  5. Zx.MYS on September 3rd, 2007 3:32 am

    I have made my blog escaped from China!lol!!!

  6. flyingcloud on September 3rd, 2007 9:39 am

    Did they got crazy? They begin to blocks all types of website…

    这一句很容易让人以为中国政府要把中国全部的网站都关闭，其实你是指被同一个IDC公司托管的所有网站。也许可以改为这样：Are they going crazy? Before they would warn and order the webmasters to delete “harmful” information from their websites, sometimes they just blocked the website. But now thousnads maybe more websites would be blocked if they are so unlucky to be hosted by the same IDC company with a “harmful” website . 然后接下来介绍一下电信事件。

    最后一句，“Not a country renowned for freedom of speech” (中国)不是以言论自由闻名的国家，和下面的China has outdone itself语气不衔接，你应该是想说 famous for its crackdown of freedom of speech a long time, 接下面的outdone才说得通。你的outdone显然是指电信事件，也就是crackdown of …。这一句里的them指谁啊？前面是用itself啊。outdone以后完全不通，窃以为直接outdone itself one more time就可结束了。

    还是多读一下西方报刊，英文写作和中文完全不同，中文喜欢绕来绕去，西方更多单刀直入。

  7. hhhaaappp…… on September 3rd, 2007 11:33 am

    my web has been killed twice in three days. i’ve moved to dh anyway but still be GFWed……
    ORZ……

  8. william on September 3rd, 2007 11:59 am

    s normal no worry as our great china, they should and allowed to do that, nothing particular, take it easy, guy…

  9. william on September 3rd, 2007 12:00 pm

    6楼的兄弟还有意思——顶一个 也在伦敦吗？

  10. 大猫 on September 3rd, 2007 3:40 pm

    也在伦敦…呃…这个也…
    都是国外人啊….真好…螃蟹都没得吃
    Who keeps company with wolves, will learn to howl.

  11. China Law Blog on September 3rd, 2007 9:42 pm

    Thank you for reporting on this. You are serving a critical function.

  12. Sawajiri Erika on September 4th, 2007 6:29 am

    That’s really crazy,almost driving me mad!

  13. waterylife on September 4th, 2007 6:31 am

    My small website with a forum was blocked today. I do not know why. It is just a small professional site about robot and robotics. There are so many personal technic website, most of which own their forums. If the authorities block all these sites, how to develop our science technology? As a Chinese, whenever I think and talk about this, I feel thar we are pity and the authorities are woeful. Who will finally blocked our democracy and development? It is not us, but we know who it is.

  14. Censurada digital na China fica maluca � Bender Blog on September 4th, 2007 9:06 am

    […] vésperas do XVII Congresso Nacional do Partido Comunista da China (PCC para os íntimos) a censura à internet no pais enlouqueceu. Sites hospedados no mesmo servidor que sites bloqueados também foram censurados. Até coisas […]

  15. anko on September 5th, 2007 12:10 am

    base on my stupid instinct,,,

    i support your view on this “pround” action by those idiots.

  16. juhuacha on September 6th, 2007 8:06 pm

    I’m still vaguely holding out hopes that the Olympics will force Beijing to give the Internet censoring-craziness a break… (pathetic and weak as that hope might be)

  17. Sooluo on September 7th, 2007 7:14 am

    Let’s Go aboard.

  18. china on September 8th, 2007 8:13 am

    你写的很反动哦~ 呵呵

    小心当成恐怖分子被美国佬给和谐了 哈哈！

  19. Kevin on September 9th, 2007 5:34 am

    It seem like williamlong‘s english is not good. Why you create this blog?

  20. hunter on September 15th, 2007 7:46 am

    的确，这文章的语法小错误比较多，建议在word上写然后看一下语法检测，顺便改改 ^_^仅仅是个人希望性质的建议
    注：其实我很愿意看到这样的一个英文博客

  21. hunter on September 15th, 2007 8:21 am

    19楼的，应该是it seems like吧，不是it seem like,你的英语好像……呵呵

  22. blond on September 17th, 2007 4:28 pm

    又给西方保守派与自由主义分子多一个理由妖魔化中国。何苦来哉。

  23. aj_young on September 18th, 2007 11:04 pm

    22楼用词不准确,妖魔化的是”中国共产党”,不是”中国”.
    你可能不在中国内地,不知道GFW有多讨人厌,任意世界知名的、大型的互动网站在墙后都无法正常访问。在Google中搜索任意关键词都时时刻刻又被GFW动态屏蔽的可能。
    相当于，在中国内地只有“党和政府”的“河蟹”网站功能正常，老百姓离“互联网”还很遥远。

  24. kvspas on September 19th, 2007 6:42 am

    月光写得好，一点语法错误不是大事。
    关键是让全世界人都知道XXX的丑恶嘴脸

    我的站点和博客也是被BAN掉了，现在都拿自己家中的电脑来搭建服务器。再也不相信国内的虚拟主机了。

  25. ygs on October 8th, 2007 1:17 am

    发现一处错误,”Also they use the Greate FireWall to blocks some great website like FeedBurner and Flickr.”此句中的Greate应该是Great吧?

  26. robv on October 15th, 2007 8:43 am

    in response to william (comment number 8).

    china’s government is not great. china’s government is paraniod.

    a paranoid man has no honor, he has a disease.

    a disease should be cured, or cut out.

    are you part of the disease william, or are you
    part of the cure?

  27. steven89526 on October 19th, 2007 9:55 am

    我的博客也被封了很久了，从9月下旬到现在，服务商告诉我即使博客没有开通评论功能，也要到11月才有可能解封。
    我已经放弃那个主机了，其实也不能怪服务商。
    现在把博客迁移到了lp，重新开始。

  28. claris on October 25th, 2007 9:20 am

    Im kinda very angry about what they did!
    They blocked every websites that I visit often!
    like: xanga, youtube and some of my favourite forums
    I have no entertainment on internet in china =.=
    If I wnat to visit those website..Do I need to go back my home to visit those website?
    by the way, Do anyone knows any website that I can visit the blocked website?

  29. Yurtdisi Egitim on March 11th, 2008 9:48 pm

    it seems like e very good web site but my Chinese is not good. It would be great if it might be availible in English too. Thanks.

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