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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Oct

26

How To Visit Google BlogSpot In China

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Most efforts(using proxy or editing hosts file, for example) to bypass The Wall can work, . I’m going to write 2 methods dedicated for blogspot. The easier way is to use pkblogs, who provides accesss to blogs “blocked in India, Pakistan, Iran or China”. But I think pkblogs itself may be blocked soon. The more [...]