Nanny Punishes Naughty Kevin
I just read about greatfirewallofchina.net on Andrew Lih’s blog. I clicked on it and was surprised it wasn’t blocked (yet). Then I clicked a few pages under their homepage and Nanny’s automated “Uh-oh, Kevin’s doing a no no” kicked in and it went offline. Typical. Nanny seems to only punish me for a minute for viewing the naughty content.
I had a similar problem with Typepad after trying to view Letters from China earlier this morning.
It’s not just my browser’s cache, either, by the way. I verified this by getting Nanny to kill the site on one browser and then immediately trying the same site on another browser – no luck, for about a minute. It’s definitely Nanny’s automated timed punishment function.
China can be so TMD 土!
Tags GFW, Internet Censorship, Censorship, China
February 16, 2007 at 3:55 pm
according to greatfirewallofchina.net your blog is also blocked. I know I have been having trouble getting in without using Tor.
February 16, 2007 at 5:31 pm
Yep. The Weifang Radish is blocked because it is hosted on WordPress.com. Lately I’ve been wondering why Blogspot and Typepad, both services with a larger user base than WordPress.com, remain unblocked while WordPress.com remains blocked. Is it a misunderstanding by the thought police at the GFW who think that by blocking WordPress.com they are blocking access to the WordPress blogging platform from Chinese users? Perhaps they don’t understand the distinction between WordPress.com and WordPress.org? I really expect them to be smarter than that, but it could be a legitimate oversight.
February 17, 2007 at 8:13 am
My understanding is that the machines which tell you where your visitors come from don’t necessarily recognize Chinese IP addresses, so at least some of them are likely to crop up as part of the “Unknown Country.” Others may be using proxy servers to get through the firewall and likewise come up in either an unknown or other location.
Blocking on the internet in China is actually a localised phenomenom, dependent both on the location and the IP provider. That said, I couldn’t get on to your site in December and January when I was in China at all, at either Xian or Beijing.