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 Internet [...]

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 touchy [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 technical way [...]

Oct

25

Google BlogSpot Blocked Again In China

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The most popular blog host BlogSpot is blocked again after the the 17th Party Congress finished in BeiJing.
In the south China, BlogSpot is not accessible all the while, but in the north China, BlogSpot was suddenly accessible on October 15 in BeiJing. The 17th Party Congress started on October 15. Some believe that the current [...]

Sep

12

FeedBurner Is Completely Blocked In China

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At the end of August, when FeedBurner is blocked by China Telecom (most in south China), some of the China Netcom (most in north China) users may glad they still be able to visit feedburner. Today, FeedBurner is blocked by China Netcom too, so the China Netcom users must say goodbye to the FeedBurner.
So far, [...]

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