May

20

Google Maps in Moonlight BBS Censored by CCTV

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　　GlobalVoices: China: Be aware! Google Earth leaks national secret 　　On May 6, famous blogger, William Long, was summoned by the Shenzhen Urban Planning and Land Supervision Division that a Google Earth picture indicating military facilities at www.moon-bbs.com is in suspect of leaking national secret. During the conversation, someone recorded the whole process with video. 　　Ogle [...]

Feb

15

Top Ten Most-Blocked Websites

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OpenDNS offers quicker and more reliable Web browsing, but when you sign up for a free OpenDNS account, you can also get other features such as content/domain blocking and access to your DNS usage statistics. With then OpenDNS Domain Tagging tools, OpenDNS issued the following lists of the most-often blocked domains by parents, schools, and [...]

Nov

23

Google Earth Layer Blocked in China

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China appears to have blocked access to the popular internet maps service – Google Earth. Google Earth is a virtual globe program that displays satellite images of varying resolution of the Earth’s surface, allowing users to visually see things like cities and houses from a bird’s eye view. Google’s map and satellite-photo service offered Chinese [...]

Oct

30

GoDaddy and SourceForge Blocked in China Again

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GoDaddy, the world’s largest ICANN-accredited domain registrar, and SourceForge, the world’s largest development and download repository of Open Source code and applications, appears to blocked in Mainland China again after Beijing 2008 Olympic Games closed. A screen copy of the command tracert shows that the problem is a router inside China Telecom. Update: SourceForge unblocked [...]

Oct

24

China Internet Censorship After Olympic Games

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As Beijing 2008 Olympic Games closed, the Internet censorship in China further tightened. Undeniably, this deterioration has affected and frustrated an increasing number of netizens in China. lot’s of foreign websites have been blocked again after the Beijing Olympics drew to an end. Meanwhile, although other foreign websites remain approachable in China, some of their [...]

Oct

8

Want China Milk, Mr. Mandelson?

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British politician Peter Mandelson, who was feted in China for drinking a glass of yoghurt on television in Beijing last week, has been rushed to hospital suffering from a kidney stone. EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson drinks a Beijing-branded yogurt at a press conference in the Chinese capital on Friday September 26, 2008. Mandelson said [...]

Sep

17

Boycott China Product If You Really Love China

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My blog entry today on a certain dairy poisoning case was deleted by request of a certain company… I feel that this very company’s PR tactics are really, really neat. Isn’t this supposed to be the case with best PR practises in China? That is — bind the interests of the company and the government, [...]

Aug

31

GoDaddy Unblocked in China

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After a week hiatus, GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name host, is back online in China. According to my early report, GoDaddy.com was blocked during the Olympics to prevent Chinese nationals from registering domain names after the names of Chinese athletes who won (Gold, Silver or Bronze) in the Olympics. The Chinese government has a [...]

Aug

22

GoDaddy Blocked in China

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GoDaddy, the largest ICANN-accredited domain registrar in the world, appears to blocked in Mainland China by the evil Net Nanny before the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games came to a close. A screen copy of the command “tracert www.godaddy.com” shows that the problem is a router inside China Telecom. The current blocking may be related to [...]

Aug

4

Websites Unblocked in China

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It seems that the Chinese Wikipedia is unblocked in China now. The unblocking of the Chinese Wikipedia in China has probably been extended to cover the whole of China. Chinese users have direct access Chinese Wikipedia from very different corners of the country. Not only with Chinese Wikipedia, this unblocking also looks like this was [...]