Picking off the small troublemakers…

… One by one.

From Global Voices:

Three prominent bloggers GFWed in the same week

Following the blocking of veteran Internet essayist He Caitou’s two longstanding blogs hecaitou.net and caobian.info on December 25, renowned columnist Lian Yue had yet another one of his blogs, lianyue.net, blocked on the 29th; late on the evening of December 30, Peking University new media associate professor Hu Yong discovered his independent blog, yong.hu, has also become inaccessible from mainland China.

As we found out when Danwei.org was blocked in July 2009, the Net censors in China are going after small websites and blogs hosted on servers outside of China. Any website about China with a certain amount of influence within China that publishes anything about certain sensitive subjects is fair game for the Great FireWall treatment.

Welcome to 2010.

Links and Sources
  • Twitter feeds of Hecaitou, Lian Yue, Hu Yong
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