Sep

17

Boycott China Product If You Really Love China

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Today, I was requested to delete a blog post about the Sanlu milk powder incident in my Chinese blog. The public relation capacity of Sanlu is really strong, isn’t that a model of China best enterprise? To tie the interest of the company with the interest of the government and use the government’s administrative power [...]

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 policy [...]

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 the [...]

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 part [...]

Jul

24

SourceForge Unblocked in China

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After a month hiatus, SourceForge, the world’s largest development and download repository of Open Source code and applications, is again accessible from China on the eve of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
Chinese authorities has never admitted to blocking access to SourceForge, the only way for people in China to reach the site was by using [...]

Jun

25

SourceForge Blocked In China

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SourceForge, the world’s largest development and download repository of Open Source code and applications, appears to blocked in Mainland China on the eve of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. A screen copy of the command “tracert www.sourceforge.net” shows that the problem is a router inside China Telecom.

The current blocking may be related to the recent [...]

Mar

22

Youtube Unblocked in China

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After a week hiatus, Youtube, a Google-owned video sharing network, is back online.
It seems that tonight(Mar 22) Chinese users could visit YouTube again since it was blocked on Mar 15. I can confirm China Telecom can access it. It was really terrible when YouTube was blocked a week ago. There is no official answer as [...]

Mar

15

YouTube Blocked in China Again

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Internet users in China were blocked from seeing YouTube.com on Mar 15 after dozens of videos about protests in Tibet appeared on the popular online video Web site.
This is not the first time that Chinese authorities blocks YouTube. In October 18, 2007, YouTube is also blocked temporarily, two week later YouTub became available again in [...]

Nov

13

Internet Censorship In Chinese Cyberspace

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China’s Internet filtering regime (the Great FireWall) is the most sophisticated effort of its kind in the world. The internet censorship in Chinese cyberspace is pervasive, sophisticated, andeffective. It comprises multiple levels of legal regulation and technical control.
The Great FireWall is unparalleled anywhere in the world and is an insult to the spirit of online [...]

Nov

3

Google Blogspot And Google Pages Unblocked In China

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The free blog hosting services Google Blogspot and the free homepage hosting Google Pages are accessible in China today.
Some days before, Google BlogSpot is blocked again after the the 17th Party Congress finished in BeiJing , but after YouTube unblocked, the Google Blogspot and Google Pages both unblocked now, that surprise me, those blocking are [...]

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