Keso, the king of China’s tech bloggers has written a post cursing China’s Net Nanny — Great FireWall as Chinese bloggers prefer to call her — for blocking Flickr, translated below:
In the global Internet, the better the website, the more likely it will get GFWed. This is the sorrow of all Internet users in this country. In the past it has been Google, Blogger, Wikipedia, WordPress.com, Vix.com… Now it’s Flick’s turn …
… I just have one character to tell those bastards: Fuck!
Keso’s blog’s sidebar currently features the image reproduced here. The Chinese characters are translated in the caption (clicking on the photo will have the desired effect or you can click here to stick a pin).
Also relevant: the Shanghainese man trying to sue the Net Nanny.
For more on the Flickr filtering, see John Kennedy’s post at Global Voices: Flickr filtered.
UPDATE:See also The People Are Angry (a Chinese blog post) and this new anti-GFW blog (also in Chinese): Unofficial website of GFW, with a section that promises weekly updates about blocked sites — Shencha Weekly.
UPDATE 2:Virtual China has reproduced a photo of Keso’s ‘Fuck GFW’ T-shirt, which you can on their site without a proxy, unlike the original hosted on Flickr.