I’m not Being Bad Enough….
Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this March 18th, 2007 9:23 pm
Leigh is…. but I am not… blocked in China.
The Great Firewall of China is a site to test URLs if they are ones being censored by the Chinese government. I guess I am not being subversive enough.
This entry was posted 1 year, 8 months ago and is filed under Blog Pile. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.[The Aim] of this website is to be a watchdog and keep track of which and how many or how many times sites are censored. Help to keep the censorship transparent. Each blocked website will automatically be added to the great firewall on the homepage.
March 19th, 2007 at 8:29 am
How ironic. This (http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/) is blocked in our school district.
March 19th, 2007 at 9:13 am
You are being a bad enough. Bad dog! Or should I say “Bad roo!”? It looks like all of WordPress.com is blocked, which means I am blocked and so is http://cogdogroo.wordpress.com/
March 19th, 2007 at 11:32 am
I am not blocked in China. Happy days (the Iranians still don’t like me though).
March 19th, 2007 at 11:39 am
Fear not — linking to this site will likely be enough to get you redlisted.
March 19th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
Hmm… My blog is blocked too. Yet I am getting hits from central China according to Google Analytics - some place called Chengdu. Oh and Iran, Mongolia and Pakistan have been tickling my blog too. Then again with the filters being employed in US K-12 nowadays we’re essentially doing the same thing!
Cheers?
John
March 20th, 2007 at 6:35 am
John,
If you read the fine print on the Great Firewall of China site, they are actually testing urls against a single server in a single city —
“We’ve opened a website in China and route your url request on greatfirewallofchina.org through to our server in China. The server in China opens the url and the result is send back. Our testing is only based on one server on one location in China”
I see it more as an interesting way to highlight the issue of governmental content censorship, and a public effort to shine light there.
March 20th, 2007 at 6:47 am
Ahh, fine print. Maybe that’s how I ended up in the Navy for 6 years
It is interesting though as others will likely make the same (erroneous) conclusion that if links are blocked at that point that they are blocked systemically. I wonder what the actual filter impact is across the region?
Thanks Alan!