Category Archives: Net Nanny Follies

Google.com blocked in China: on again, off again

At around 10pm last night June 24, Internet users on Twitter.com and Fanfou.com in various parts of China reported that Google.com and related services such as Gmail were inaccessible, although Google.cn continued to work.

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Google says “Gao Ye” is a sensitive word in any form

Google now blocks searches for phrases containing 高也 (Gao Ye), the name of the CCTV intern who blasted it for providing porn.

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State media blames Google for porn

The latest development in the government’s Internet cleansing is a CCTV attack on Google China for pornographic content, which aired last night.

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Green Dam Girl

The latest onslaught on a government policy that everyone from nationalist Chinese netizens to foreign journalists derides as absurd.

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Oddities in the Green Dam filtered words list

Fang Zhouzi discovers that Green Dam filters anti-filth, anti-cult phrases. Also, the Green Dam Girl makes a splash on the Internet.

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Twitter available in China again

Twitter and Flickr, blocked in China since last week, seem to be available again according to reports from Shanghai, Qingdao and Beijing.

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Chinese websites “under maintenance”

The administrators of Chinese websites are putting in a period of inaccessibility on their sites for period of the Tıаnanmen anniversary tomorrow.

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Twitter blocked in China

Michael Anti was right.

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Blogger.com blocked, but not the Washington Post

Google’s blogging platform Blogger.com is blocked again in China.

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Youtube accessible again – now has ‘country preferences’

Youtube access has been restored in Beijing.

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