China (doesn’t) bans Weird Asia News
jaap holm Says: and here i am in beijing happily reading Weird Asia and typing away.
Thanks man. Nice to know all our fans in China can see the blog fine.
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We all know that China has started a mass ban of sites. Google.com started the real notice to this even though it has been happening for a long time. So we decided to run a “Does your site work in China” test and found this…
Guess we had that one coming huh? If you got friends in China you can help them out by taking screen shots of our articles and sending through email.
Just don’t get your friends arrested!
By Sun Tzu on 12-03-2007
Comment by jaap holm
March 13th, 2007 at 12:17 am
and here i am in beijing happily reading Weird Asia and typing away. Just don’t believe every result you get from Greatfirewallofchina.net is my advice. Greatfirewallofchina.net just works via a webaddress in China. If someone hits the great wall with a sensitive enquiry, that IP adress is often suspended from the web for some time. 2o minutes or os. Call it punishment. If someone else then tries to reach mickey mouse. com in that time-out period, he/she might conclude the mouse is banned in the middle kingdom. Thats what happened to you Sun Tsu.
Comment by skanger
March 13th, 2007 at 5:23 am
That’s really sad.
Who runs the greatfirewallofchina.org? Why do they want to collect your address on their database?
Comment by jaap holm
March 13th, 2007 at 9:04 am
greatfirewallofchina.org is run by some dutch documentary film makers and funded by (cultural) organizations in the Netherlands. Why they addresses i dont know
Comment by jaap holm
March 13th, 2007 at 9:05 am
collect addresses i mean
Comment by michiel
March 13th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
@Jaap, I will try to find out: and call them!
Running http://www.chinasuccessstories.com from Holland as well it shouldn’t be to hard to ask / get in contact. I like the site, not sure how fail-proof it is.
Comment by Chileno
March 24th, 2007 at 3:19 am
>>>Why do they want to collect your address on their database?
Either aggregating patterns of censorship to help free speech or aggregating patterns of suspiciousness to help China, right? Can’t wait to hear how the phone call went.
Comment by Know what you don't know
May 26th, 2008 at 9:07 am
Well, as for being blocked in China, I have to say that I can read almost all the pages, it is just a few images, and video that I am unable to access, but otherwise I am able to get onto all the postings in this blog fine.
And a small sligh message to all readers, Yes, “they are always watching, you can’t change this, you can’t change the future.”