Category Archives: Net Nanny Follies

‘My breasts, my show’ and Craigslist clone shut down for obscenity

The China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Centre recently condemned Mop.com and Zhantai.com for large amounts of obscene content.

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Net Nanny took her meds (or didn’t)

Earlier this week, a number of foreign-hosted websites blocked by the Great FireWall China’s Internet censorship machine known became accessible, including Hootsuite, VOA, Vimeo and a number of porn sites. On the other hand, the link shortening Twitter photo service … Continue reading

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Internet executives complain about excessive Net censorship

Internet executives complain about excessive Net censorship at an officially sanctioned meeting in Shenzhen.

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IMDB.com blocked in China

Movie review website IMDB.com (clearly a nest of splittist and anti-China forces) has been blocked in China by the Great FireWall. In honor of this event, we present this Youtube video of Queen singing ‘Another one bites the dust’. Of … Continue reading

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GFW outage

A brief breakdown of the Great FireWall.

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Picking off the small troublemakers…

Three prominent blogs blocked.

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Yeeyan.com stops publishing and shuts off server

Yeeyan.com, a Chinese translation website that collaborated with The Guardian, has shut down their servers apparently due to the government’s regulations.

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Would you consider leaving China because of Internet blocks?

A casual Internet survey about China Internet blocks.

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Twitter is blocked

In another act of net nanny folly Twitter.com has been blocked on the Chinese mainland.

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Has China Telecom been green damned?

Danwei commenter eric left a comment today to alert Danwei to the fact access to sites like CNN and Digg were blocked by a China Telecom-branded gopher.

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